1. Classification of Living Things
Diversity of Life

2. What is classification?
Grouping of things according to characteristics

3. The science of classifying organisms is known as taxonomy

4. Early Classification Systems
Aristotle grouped animals
- those with red blood and those without red blood.
Also according to the way they moved
John Ray was the first to
use the term “species”

5. Binomial Nomenclature
Developed by Carl Linnaeus
Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist
foundations for biological naming scheme of
binomial nomenclature.
known as the father of modern taxonomy

6. two-name system
each organism has a
genus and a species name:
first name -genus,
second name - species

7. Scientific names of organisms are always italicized or underlined:
* genus is capitalized;
species name is
lower-case

8. What is a scientific name?
Combination of the genus and species name is used for an organism

10. NOTE:
This genus includes three subspecies of gorilla, which are distinguished by their physical differences and their distribution in Africa. The western lowland gorilla is Gorilla gorilla gorilla, the eastern lowland gorilla is G. g. graueri, and the very rare mountain gorilla is G. g. beringei&127;.

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

12. Questions What are the seven classification groups?
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