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What is classification?
Grouping organisms according to their structural
similarities

placed in one group

Classification has many uses :
helps scientists to sort organisms in order
helps to identify new organisms
makes easier to study organisms when they are
sorted in groups.

Taxonomy: the science of describing, naming, and

classifying organisms
 Biological Species Concept

Spesies :

Father X Mother
 Zorse

infertile : cannot reproduce offspring because it is a product of

organisms of different species
Are sea cucumbers edible fruit?

Common names can be misleading

Binomial nomenclature
 Developed by Carolus
Linnaeus
Swedish Biologist 1700s
 Binomial Nomenclature: System of giving every organism 2
names
1st word: Genus
2nd word: Species

Example: House cat

Genus: Felis
Species: catus
Felis catus
 Rules used to write scientific names

Rules:
1. Come from latin word.
2. An organisms genus is always written first; the organisms
species is always written second
3. First letter of first word only is capital.
4. Written in italic, or underlined each word
5. It should write in full, in case genus can be abbreviated but put
full stop after the letter
Tyrannosaurus rex T. rex
Salmonella typosa S. typosa
5. The abbreviation "sp." is used when the actual specific name
cannot or need not be specified, and have to ended with full
stop. e.g Capsicum sp.
Capsicum annuum Capsicum frutescens
Felis catus Pongo pygmaeous
The first big division of
living things in the
classification system is
kingdom
7 individual levels (taxa) used to classify
organisms

Remember:
King Philip
Came Over For
Grandmas
Soup.