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WHAT IS TAXONOMY?
1. Read the first part of the text (page 32) and answer the questions.

a. Is taxonomy only concerned with the classification of animals?

b. Have all the species of animals been classified?

c. What percentage has been classified?

e. What is in a taxonomical name of an organism?

f. How many taxonomical ranks are there?

g. What’s the highest hierarchical rank? And the lowest?

h. How many parts are there to a scientific name? What are they?

2. Let´s find out the scientific or common name of the following animals.
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3. Complete the following chart with 3 examples of each category taken from the
second part of the text (page 33).

CATEGORY EXAMPLES
kingdom

phylum

class

Order

Family

genus