1. Classification of Living Things

2. Cornell Note Taking Questions Key Terms Main Ideas Answers Definitions
Supporting Details/Pictures

3. What is classification?
Classification is the grouping of living organisms according to similar structures and functions.

4. What branch of science is classification?
Taxonomy

5. Who developed the 1st Classification System?
Aristotle developed the early classification system

6. How did Aristotle group plants?
Aristotle grouped plants according to their sizes
Shrub
Bush
Tree

7. How did Aristotle group animals?
Aristotle grouped animals according to where they lived or spent most of their time
Air
Water
Land

8. Who developed the classification system we use today?
Carolus Linnaeus developed the modern classification system

9. What are the 8 levels (Taxa) of the modern classification system?
The 8 levels known as Taxa are :
Domain
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species

10. What are the 3 Domains?
Arranged from the least complex to the most complex
Archae
Bacteria
Eukarya

11. How are the taxa arranged?
The Taxa are listed
in order from the broadest to the most specific.

12. Human Classification

14. How can we remember the 8 levels? Choose one !
Dear King Philip Came Over For Grape Soda.
Dear King Philip Came Over For Green Skittles.
Dear King Philip Came Over For Good Spaghetti.
Dear King Philip Came Over For Good Soup.

15. How do we name organisms?
Binomial Nomenclature
Developed by Carolus Linnaeus
What is Binomial Nomenclature?
Two-name system:
First name is the organism’s genus (Always Upper Case)
Second name is the organism’s species (Always Lower Case)
Both are always Italicized or Underlined

16. How do we identify organisms?
Dichotomous Key (aka. Taxonomic Key) -paired statements that describe the physical characteristics of different organisms

17. Use the key to identify the following:
Dichotomous Key
1a Fruits occur singly Go to 3
1b Fruits occur in clusters of two or more Go to 2
2a Fruits are round Grapes
2b Fruits are elongate Bananas
3a Thick skin that separates easily from flesh Oranges
3b Thin skin that adheres to flesh Go to 4
4a More than one seed per fruit Apples
4b One seed per fruit Go to 5
5a Skin covered with velvety hairs Peaches
5b Skin smooth, without hairs Plums
Use the key to identify the following:

18. Alienus quadiegicus
Alienus hairicus
Alienus tritoothicus
Alienus stripicus
Alienus blobicus
Alienus fuzzicus 1. 2. 4. 3. 5. 6.

19. 1. 3. 4. 5. 2. 6. 7. 8. 9.
10.

20. Number Your Paper from 1-8.
Identify each Norn. Remember to add Norno as the 1st name. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

21. Homework: Create Your Own Dichotomous Key
Find a picture with five people/itmes in it.
Give each person/item a name
Create a dichotomous key to identify each person/item
Turn the picture and dichotomous key in