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Is your closet organized?
Living things are organized
into 6 groups
THE 6 KINGDOMS OF LIVING
THINGS ARE:
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Archaebacteria
Eubacteria
Protista
Fungi
Plants
Animals
Why are things grouped (classified)?
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Organization
Organization
Organization
Communication
Communication
Communication
Classification
 The systematic
grouping of organisms
into categories on the
basis of evolutionary or
structural relationships
between them.
 Also known as the
science of taxonomy.
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Early history
 Aristotle-first to organize living things
 2 large groups-plant and animal
Taxonomy
 Is the science of naming and classifying
organisms-has sub-groups and names
 Father of taxonomy
is Carl Linnaeus
KPCOFGS
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King
Phillip
Came
Over
For
Good
Spaghetti
Humans
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Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
Animal
Chordata
Mammalia
Primates
Hominadae
Homo
sapiens
Chimpanzee
Animal
Chordata
Mammalia
Primates
Pongidae
Pan
troglodytes
What is a primate?
 hands and feet which are adapted for
grasping,
 their thumbs and big toes can be moved to
touch the other digits and are known as
opposable digits,
 eyes on the front of the face - binocular
vision. This is a great help in judging
distance accurately,
What do all hominids have?
 bipedalism and large brains
 share more than 97% of their DNA with the
modern human genome, and exhibit a
capacity for language or for simple cultures
beyond the family.
Binomial nomenclature
 C. Linnaeus developed a system that gives
a 2 word name to every organism.
 The 2 word naming system is called
binomial nomenclature
 It helps to avoid confusion
 It uses the Genus and species name only
Some common names
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Canis familiaris - dog
Felis domesticus - cat
Canis lupus - wolf
Vulpes vulpes - fox
Ichthyomyzon gagi - brook lamprey
Populus deltoides - cottonwood
Cercis canadensis - red bud
Diospyros virginiana - persimmon
Carya illinoensis - pecan
Classification and evolution
According to Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution,
members that are grouped together have similar
characteristics because they descended from a
common ancestor
Classification shows
the evolutionary relationships
of organisms
A dichotomous key
 is used to identify organisms that you do not
already know.
 Means "two forks".
 A dichotomous key is one tool that can be
used to identify trees or any other organism