1. Is your closet organized?

2. Living things are organized into 6 kingdoms

3. 6 Kingdoms-{3 domains} Archaebacteria Eubacteria Protists Fungi Plants
Animals

4. Classification
The systematic grouping of organisms into categories on the basis of relationships between them.
Also known as the science of taxonomy.

5. Why are things classified
Why are things classified? Helps us organize information AND communicate with others
EXAMPLES of things that we organize:
Supermarket aisles
Libraries
Classes
Teams/sports
Members of a family
Roads
Cities
Money

6. Human Taxonomy Kingdom Animal Phylum Chordata Class Mammals
HUMANS
Kingdom Animal
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammals
Order Primate
Family Hominadae
Genus Homo
Species Sapien

7. KPCOFGS
Kind
Professors
Can
Often
Fail
Good
Students

8. Early history(2,000 ya) Aristotle grouped everything into
simple groups such as animals or plants
He then grouped animals
according to if they had blood
or didn’t have blood,
and if they had live young
or laid eggs, and so on…

9. Taxonomy
Is the science of naming and classifying organisms-has sub-groups and names
Father of taxonomy
is Carl Linnaeus ( )

10. 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

11. Paperbark Maple
Acer griseum
Red Snakebark Maple Acer capillipes
Japanese Maple
Acer palmatum

13. Panthera Comprising the species: Lion, tiger, jaguar, leopard on the basis of cranial features
Lion- Panthera leo
Tiger- Panthera tigris
Jaguar-
Panthera onca
SNOW LEOPARD also belongs to the Panthera-----added 2008

14. Rules used to write scientific names
Homo sapiens
An organism’s genus is always written first; the organism’s species is always written second
The genus is Capitalized; the species is
written in lower case
Scientific names of organisms are always italicized or underlined

15. Some common names 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

16. A dichotomous key
is used to identify organisms that you do not already know.
A reference tool where a series of choices between alternative characters leads progressively to the identification of the species.
Means "two forks".