Slide 1 Classification of Organisms Chapter 17 Slide 2 Biodiversity Biodiversity – the variety of organisms considered at all levels from populations to ecosystems. Slide…
Slide 1 Taxonomic Classification Slide 2 Objectives Outline the binomial system of nomenclature. List seven levels in the hierarchy of taxonomy – kingdom, phylum, class,…
Slide 1 Taxonomy Environmental Ed. 1 Slide 2 Taxonomy The science of naming and classifying organisms. Slide 3 Linnaean taxonomy Named after Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus…
Slide 1 Taxonomy (Classification) Slide 2 Carolus Linnaeus -developed the scientific naming system still used today. Taxonomy is the science of naming and classifying organisms.…
Slide 1 Taxonomy and Phylogeny and Evolution How do we as biologists classify life? Slide 2 Slide 3 What is taxonomy? Carolus Linnaeus [~1750s] began classifying organisms…
Chapter 10, The Mistaken Extinction, by Lowell Dingus and Timothy Rowe, New York, W. H. Freeman, 1998. CHAPTER 10 Dinosaurs Challenge Evolution Enter Sir Richard Owen More…
Slide 1 Classification of Living Things: --- How would you classify these organisms? --- What kinds of things would you look at to help you classify them? --- What characteristics…
Classification of Organisms Classification of Organisms The study of the kinds and diversity of organisms and their evolutionary relationships is called systematics or taxonomy…