Download Classification of Living Things

Warm Up
If I asked you to classify you and
your classmates into 2 groups by a
distinguishable characteristic,
what would you suggest that
characteristic to be?
Now, look around at your classmates
and list 2 more characteristics that
you could use to categorize
everyone into 2 or more groups.
Classification of Living Things
Diversity of Life
What is classification?
 Classification is
the grouping
of things according to
characteristics
 The science of classifying
organisms is known as
taxonomy.
Early classification
systems
 Aristotle grouped
animals
according to the way they
moved
 John Ray was the first to use
the term “species”
Binomial Nomenclature
 Developed
by Linnaeus
 Two-name system
 Each organism has a genus
and a species name
 First name (genus); second
name (species)
What is a scientific name?
 Combination
of the genus and
species name of an organism
 Scientific names of organisms
are always italicized or
underlined: (Genus is
capitalized; species name is
lower-case)
Seven classification
groups of living things
Kingdom
2. Phylum
3. Class
4. Order
5. Family
6. Genus
7. Species
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