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The Key to Classifying

The Key to Classifying.

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The Key to Classifying

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  1. The Key to Classifying

  2. You have now had many opportunities to classify plants and animals. In each situation you used characteristics of the animal or plant to classify it. For example, a pitch pine tree has thin needles in bundles of three. A snail has soft body parts with a shell. Classification usually depends on the external or internal characteristics that are constant for all members of the species.

  3. Living things also have characteristics that are not useful for classifying. Can you think of what some of these might be? Share your ideas with your classmates.

  4. What is the difference between physical appearance and learned behaviours? Give an example of each type of characteristic. • Why do scientists use structural characteristics to classify living things? • Give an example of structural characteristic shared by all humans.

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