Classification of Living Things

Diversity of Life

What is classification?
Classification is the grouping

of things according to
characteristics
The science of classifying
organisms is known as
taxonomy

Early classification systems

Aristotle grouped animals

according to the way they

moved
John Ray was the first to use the
term species

Binomial Nomenclature
Developed by Linnaeus
Two-name system

Each organism has a genus and

a species name
First name (genus); second
name (species)

What is a scientific name?

Combination of the genus and
species name of an organism
Scientific names of organisms
are always italicized or
underlined: (Genus is
capitalized; species name is
lower-case)

Questions
What is classification?
Why is classifying living things
important?
What is taxonomy?
Describe binomial
nomenclature.

Questions
Who developed a system for

naming living organisms?

For what is John Ray known?
What is a scientific name of an
organism and how is it written?

Seven classification groups of

living things
Kingdom

Family

Phylum

Genus

Class

Species

Order

Questions
What are the seven

classification groups?
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