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Dec 13, 2015
classification
:
mammal bird reptile amphibian fish
Small (grasses)
Medium (shrubs)
Large (trees)
Air Land Sea
350 B.C.
1750
• Grouped living things into “kingdoms”
• Grouped things by their physical traits
• Gave all living things a two-part name…binomial nomenclature.
•“two-term name”
Each KINGDOM is further classified into more specific groups, much like addresses are organized into smaller categories.
Kingdom Country
Phylum State
Class County
Order Town
Family Neighborhood
Genus Street
Species House Number
SPECIES
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
Multi-cellular consumers
backbone
Milk-producing hairy
Opposable digits, Bipedal
Stereoscopic vision
Bigger brain, tool making,
“wise man”
Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species
Animal Chordate Mammal Primate Hominid Pan troglodytes
Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species
Animal Chordate Mammal carnivore Felidae Pantera leo
Sunflower Wolf African Elephant
Bullfrog Dog Mushroom
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
All are mammalsHumans and chimpanzees DNA are 98% similar
Is an animal’s Genus (Evereadii) and its species (eatibus)
Binomial Nomenclature
Common name: Human
Common name: Dog
Common name: Tiger
Common name: Elephant
A two-part naming system
The 5 kingdom system
ANIMAL
PLANT
FUNGUS
BACTERIA
PROTIST
Animal Kingdom
* Eukaryotic
Fungus Kingdom
• Except for YEAST which is unicellular
• Decomposer
• made of chitin
* Eukaryotic
Protist Kingdom
• some algae are multicellular
or
(Plant-like)
(Animal-like)
* Eukaryotic
1. a. Wings covered by a hard covering (exoskeleton)…….go to 2
b. Wings not covered by exoskeleton…….go to 3
2. a. Body is round shape……
b. Body is elongated……
Lady bug
Grasshopper
3. a. Wings point toward the back………
b. Wings point toward the sides….. Go to 4
Housefly
4. a. Wings are large and broad…….
b. Wings are long and thin…...
Butterfly
Dragonfly
A tool used to determine the identity of an organism
QuestionsWhat traits were used by Aristotle to classify animals?
Why is this considered a poor method by today’s standards?
Name the major classification groups, from largest to smallest?
What is binomial nomenclature?
Why is it used (i.e. why use Latin names?)
What are the five kingdoms?
Are humans more closely related to a mouse or a chicken? Explain.
List two ways how plants and animals are different and similar.
What characteristic is exclusive to bacteria?
If you discovered an organism with a cell wall, which kingdom would you know it does NOT belong to?
If you discovered animal that closely resembled a human, what Class and Order would it likely belong?
Which is the largest group? Order, Genus, or Family.