1. What are scientific names? How are organisms classified?
Classification
What are scientific names?
How are organisms classified?

2. Taxonomy Science of naming and classifying organisms
Groups of organisms are placed into taxons
Taxons of classification system
Domain
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species

3. Characteristics of Taxons
Domains
Archaea – all prokaryotic, live in extreme environments
Bacteria – all prokaryotic, live everywhere else
Eukarya – all eukaryotic; protists, fungi, plants, and animals

4. Binomial Nomenclature
Organisms are assigned scientific names for consistency
Rules:
In Latin
Two names – genus and species
Genus is capitalized
Species is lowercase
Always underlined or in italics
Example: Acer rubrum
Acer sucrum