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Warm Up If I asked you to classify you and your classmates into 2 groups by a distinguishable characteristic, what would you suggest that characteristic to be? Now, look around at your classmates and list 2 more characteristics that you could use to categorize everyone into 2 or more groups.

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)

Seven classification groups of living things Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species