1. To organize living things in an orderly and consistent way.
Classification
To organize living things in an orderly and consistent way.

2. Biodiversity Definition: The variety of species living in an area
The _____________ biodiversity there is in an ecosystem, the ___________ that ecosystem is.
more
healthier

3. WHY, oh WHY do we CLASSIFY??
When we classify things they are:
Easier to find and identify.
Allows is to see relationships.

4. HOW do we Classify?
Anatomy
Cytology
BioChemistry
Embryology ?

5. LATIN
Language:
Latin is the language of science, especially during Linnaeus’ time.

6. Levels of Classification
Did
King
Phillip
Come
Over
For
Green
Soup
Domain
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species

7. How does THIS represent the Levels of Classification?
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Primate
Hominidae
Homo
sapiens

8. Kingdom
Phylum
Class

9. Kingdom
Genus
Species
Family
Phylum
Order
Class

10. Scientific Names: Binomial Nomenclature
Cat
Chat
Felis domesticus or
Felis domesticus
γάτα
Katze
Gatto 猫

11. Honeoye Falls-Lima ? ◦cougars ◦mountain lion ◦panther ◦puma ◦catamount
Felis concolor

12. How to Write a Scientific name
Use the GENUS and SPECIES names.
Genus is first, species is second.
Genus is capitalized (first letter only), species is all lower case.
The entire name is either underlined or italicized (when handwritten, always underline).
MUSCA DOMESTICA
URSUS HORRIBILIS
CANUS LUPUS
(binomial nomenclature)

13. Dichotomous Keys
A tool that allows the user to determine the identity of items in the natural world, such as trees, wildflowers, mammals, reptiles, rocks, and fish. Keys consist of a series of choices that lead the user to the correct name of a given item.
For each item, there are two choices…

14. Dichotomous Keys: a series of two statement options to help identify an object
1 a. If chocolate……………………………………………….go to 2
b. If not chocolate…………………………………………..go to 3
2 a. If one large piece…………………………………………________________
b. If many smaller pieces…………………………………...________________
3 a. If long, flexible and one color……………………………________________
b. If multicolored and small pieces………………………...________________
SNICKERS BAR
M & Ms
TWIZZLERS
SKITTLES

15. What the heck is a Cladogram?
A cladogram is a tree-like diagram showing evolutionary relationships.

16. Cladograms, continued…
Cladograms also show which groups are more related to each other than to other groups:
Example: snakes are more closely related to birds than they are to mammals.

17. Holy Cow!! Can you imagine doing all this?

18. Good Regents Question from June ’05 Exam

19. Domain
Kingdom
Characteristics
Most primitive - Live in extreme
Prokaryotic conditions
Archea
Archaebacteria
Bizzaro Fact:
The world’s largest organism is the Honey Mushroom, or Armillaria ostoyae. It is a fungus living 3 feet underground and covers the area of about 1,665 football fields. It is estimated to be between 2,400 and 7,200 years old!
Prokaryotic
Has only two phyla: blue green algae and eubacteria
Bacteria
Moneran
Most diverse - Both plant and animal like
Single celled - Auto and Heterotrophic
Protista
Heterotrophic - Sessile
Multicellular (except yeast)
Fungi
Eukarya
Autotrophic
Multicellular
Plantae
Heterotrophic - Motile
Multicellular
Animalia

20. Name the correct Kingdom or Domain, or give a characteristic of a domain or kingdom! 100 pts per question (solo) OR 50 pts if you decide to use your team for help. Questions answered wrong can be stolen by another team for full points

21. Name the Kingdom
1. Contains multicellular organisms which must get their food from another organism…

22. Name the Kingdom
2. All of these organisms do photosynthesis.

23. Name the Domain(s)
3. Contains prokaryotic organisms…

24. Name the Kingdom 4

25. Name the Kingdom 5

26. Name the Kingdom 6

27. Name the Kingdom 7

28. Name a characteristic of Domain Eukarya…
8 All organisms in this domain contain cells with a nucleus.

29. 9 Name a characteristic of Domain Archaea
Most primitive cells (oldest cells)
Live in extreme environments
Prokaryotic cells (no nucleus)

30. Name the Kingdom and Domain10

31. 11 Name three Kingdoms in Eukarya Domain
Animalia
Plantae
Fungi
Protista

32. 13 Name the Domain

33. 14 Name the Domain

34. 15 Name the kingdom and domain

35. 16 Name a characteristic of the Kingdom fungi
Heterotrophic
Multicellular (except yeast)
Non-motile

36. 17 Name the Domain

37. 18 Name the Domain

38. 19 Name the Domain

39. 20 Name the Kingdom and Domain

40. 21 Name the levels of classification in order (largest to smallest)
Domain
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species