1. Classification: Finding Order in Diversity
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2. Assigning Scientific Names
Each scientific name MUST refer to one and only one species
Common names are confusing
Is it a puma?
Panther?
Mountain lion?

3. Binomial Nomenclature
1730s – Carolus Linnaeus developed two-word naming system
Binomial Nomenclature = Genus + species Ursus arctos

4. What’s Your Name?? Pieza pi, Pieza rhea, Pieza kake
Ittibium – small sea snails
Ba humbugi – snail in Fiji
Gelae baen, Gelae rol, Gelae fish, Gelae belae – beetles
Spongiforma squarepantsii – mushroom
Bracyurupuskkyodermatogammarus greivlingwmnemnotus – longest scientific name for an itty bitty brine shrimp

5. Classifying Species into Larger Groups
Biologists try to organize (classify) living and fossil species into larger groups that have biological meaning
Organisms in one group are more similar to one another than they are to organisms in other groups
Science of naming and grouping organisms = systematics

6. Linnaean Classification System
Domain
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species

7. Linnaean Classification System
Domain - Eukarya
Kingdom - Animalia
Phylum - Chordata
Class - Mammalia
Order - Artiodactyla
Family - Camelidae
Genus - Camelus
Species – Camelus bactrianus

8. DKPCOFGS Mnemonics
Easy way to remember the taxonomy is to make a jingle or saying out of the letters…
Dumb King Phillip Came Over From Greece Singing
Make your own!