CLASSIFICATION

_______________ - the science of classifying organisms based on similarities
_______________ - developed the first classification system around 350 B.C. This system was used for 2,000 yrs.

Naming of organisms was disorganized and varied. Many scientists used long names that described, as well as named, their organisms.

For example, the honey bee was once named:

Apis pubescens, thorace subgriseo, abdomine fusco, pedibus posticus glabris, utringue margine ciliatis

_______________ - a Swedish botanist who developed a new system in which similar organisms were placed in a group called a _______________.

A species is a group of organisms that have similar _______________ and can mate and produce _______________ offspring.
Similar species were placed in a larger group called a _______________.
Similar genera were placed in a larger group called an _______________.
Similar orders were placed in a larger group called a _______________.
Similar classes were placed in the largest group called a _______________.


_______________ _______________ - Linnaeus used the ________ and ________ names for scientific names. Each organism always has _______________ names.

Names are written in _______________ because it is a universal language and a dead language which doesn't change.

For example: Man = _______________
Flowering dogwood = _______________

The Modern Classification System now is:

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Members of a species that are significantly different in some way may be called _______________, a subdivision of a species. If varieties are separated geographically, they may be called _______________.

Modern taxonomists use _______________, _______________, _______________, _______________ similarities, and _______________ to group organisms.
There are now _______________KINGDOMS recognized by most scientists.
The number of other groups varies.
Kingdoms:
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The classification of man is as follows:
Kingdom - ____________
Phylum - ____________
Class - ____________
Order - ____________
Family - ____________
Genus - ____________
Species - ____________

This is very similar to the way we classify ourselves in order for the mailman to locate a specific person:

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