3.  Our planet is home to a very diverse group of species. But how many different species of living organisms do you think there are?

4.  Understand the natural world  Catalogue living organisms  Universal system of identifying organisms  Understand how species evolved

5.  Linnaeus developed the classification system that we use to group organisms  Binomial nomenclature (2 names)  3 domains, 6 kingdoms

6.  Kingdom  Phylum  Class  Order  Family  Genus  Species  Animalia  Chordata  Mammalia  Primates  Hominidae  Homo  sapiens

7. Kingdom-Animalia Phylum-Chordata Class-Mammalia Order-Carnivora Family-Canidae Genus-Canis Species-lupus

8.  2 part species name, or scientific name  Genus species Caretta caretta Eubalaena australis

9. Homo erectus Homo sapien

10.  Domain Archaea › Kingdom Archaebacteria  Domain Bacteria › Kingdom Eubacteria  Domain Eukarya › Kingdom Protista › Kingdom Fungi › Kingdom Plantae › Kingdom Animalia Staphylococcus epidermidis

11. ArchaebacteriaProkaryoticUnicellular Nannoarchaeum equitans EubacteriaProkaryoticUnicellularChlorobi ProtistaEukaryotic Unicellular/ multicellular Euglena gracilis FungiEukaryotic Unicellular/ multicellular Penicillium candida PlantaeEukaryoticMulticellular Carnegiea gigantea AnimaliaEukayoticMulticellular Homo sapiens

12.  Uses pairs of contrasting, descriptive statements to separate and lead to the identification of an organism  What are some descriptive differences between these two objects?

13.  Use the dichotomous key to identify the creatures #2 Broadus archus #6 Broadus anderson #8 Narrowis georginia

14.  Was it easy to identify the creatures even though you knew nothing about them?  What characteristics did they use?  Did they start with general or specific characteristics?

15.  Break into groups to make your own dichotomous key