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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