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Classification

Classification

• When you walk into your kitchen at home,


you properly know where to find most
things.
• The forks are in a drawer with the spoons
and knives. Milk and meat are in the
refrigerator.
• Canned soups and vegetables are on a pantry
shelf or in a cupboard.
• Pots, pans, and dishes have their places too.
Classification
• Putting similar items together in
a kitchen makes cooking and
cleaning up easier.
• The process of classification or
grouping similar things
together, makes sense for
anyone who uses a kitchen.
• It also makes sense for scientists
who study living things.
Classification
• No one can know everything about
the 10 million or more different
kinds of organisms that may live
on Earth.
• By identifying characteristics that
living things share, scientists can
group similar organisms.
• To do this, scientists look for
similarities in the way organisms
look, live, eat, move, grow,
change, and reproduce.
What is classification?
• The process of grouping similar things together is called classification.
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