Chapter 9: Classification
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- Who founded taxonomy?
- Carolus Linnaeus
- How many levels of classification are there?
- seven
- What are the seven kingdoms in order?
- Kingdom,Phylum,Class,Order,Family,Genus,Species
- What is taxonomy?
- Taxonomy is the science of identifying,classifying, and naming living things
- Taxonomists classify organisms according to what?
- presumed evolutionary relationships
- In order to classify a newly discovered organism, a biologist will look at two main things:
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1.Common ancestors
2.Who are they related to - Scientific Names for organism consist of the what?
- Genus and Species
- Both words in the name are either what or what?
- underlined or italicized
- The genus name always begins with a what letter and the species a what letter?
- capital, and lowercase
- What is a dichotomous key?
- a special guide that consists of several pairs of descriptive statements that have only two alternitave responses
- Bacteria is divided into two kingdoms:
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1.Archaebacteria
2.Eubacteria - What is Classification?
- Classification is the arrangement of organisms into orderly groups based on their similarities
- Classifying things makes it easier for biologists to find the answers to many important questions these questions are?
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How many known species are there?
What are the characteristics of each?
What are the relationships between the species?