• The number of species that are known and

described range between 1.7-1.8 million. (IUCN)

• INTERNATIONAL UNION OF
CONSERVATION OF NATUR AND NATURAL
RESOURCES
• This refers to biodiversity or the number and
types of organisms present on earth.
 NOMENCLATURE
• we know the plants and animals in our own area
by their local names.
• These local names would vary from place to
place, even within a country.
 BINOMIAL NOMENCLATURE

Given by Carolus Linnaeus

UNIVERSAL RULES OF NOMENCLATURE
 CLASSIFICATION

• Process by which anything is grouped

into convenient categories based on
some easily observable characters.
• The scientific term for these
categories is taxa
 TAX0NOMY
• Based on characteristics, all living organisms
can be classified into different taxa (categories).
• This process of classification is taxonomy.
• External and internal structure
form the
• structure of cell
basis
• Development process of modern
taxonomic
• Ecological Information of organisms
studies
• systematics take into account about evolutionary
relationship between organisms
 Share common characteristics
Cotyledon: the embryonic leaf in seed-bearing plants
Notochord: found in the early embryos of vertebrates and
seves to form nervous system