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Chapter #3. Classification. Chapter 3.1 Notes. Classify- means to group thing together based on similarities. Trait - is a feature (look or behavior) that a thing has.
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Chapter #3 Classification
Chapter 3.1 Notes • Classify- means to group thing together based on similarities. • Trait- is a feature (look or behavior) that a thing has. Traits are things like eye color, hair color, tooth color, hand shape, size of foot, being a tongue roller or not, finger shapes.
Chapter 3.2 Notes • Aristotle one of the 1st people to classify things. He put everything into two groups Plants and Animals Land Sea Air Shrub Trees Herbs
1735 Carolus Linnaeus- developed new classification system. Changes • Plants and animals into more groups. • Based on specific traits. • Gave organisms names that described their traits.
7 Levels of Classification • Kingdom – Largest King • Phylum Phillip • Class Came • Order Over • Family From • Genus Germany • Species – Smallest Swimming
Human Classification Kingdom- Animals Phylum- Chordates Class- Mammals Order- Primates Family- hominidae Genus- Homo Species- sapiens
A rare owl not much bigger than a human fist was spotted for the first time in the wild in the Peruvian jungle last week (March 20, 2007). The bird with long, wispy feathers around its eyes was first discovered in 1976. Ornithologists believe only between 250 and 1,000 of the tiny animals, which occupy their own genus "Xenoglaux”, exist on the planet. Long-whiskered owlet
Chapter 3.3 Notes • Scientific Name- is the genus + species. Genus is always CAPITILIZED and species is lower case. This poison arrow frog's scientific name, Dendrobatesazureus, means blue tree-walker!
5 kingdoms • Plants- many cells, have chloroplast. Tree, flowers… • Fungi- have cell wall, no chloroplast. Mushroom, mold… • Animals- many cells, can move. Dog, cat, insects…. • Protist- 1 cell have nucleus, some have chloroplast. Amoeba,euglena. • Monerans- I cell, no nucleus. Bacteria.
Work Cited • “Kingdoms”. March 15, 2007. http://www.abdn.ac.uk/zoologymuseum/images/kingdoms.jpg • “Traits”. March 15, 2007. http://www.extension.iastate.edu/e-set/science_is_here/Images/traits.gif • “Photo of traits”. March 15, 2007. http://wappingersschools.org/RCK/staff/teacherhp/johnson/visualvocab/traits.jpg • “Aristotle”. March 15, 2007. http://www.ecor.uni-saarland.de/images/aristotle.gif • “Linnaeus”. March 15, 2007. http://www.marcdatabase.com/~lemur/lemur.com/gallery-of-antiquarian-technology/worthies/famous-men-science-linnaeus-1200-scale1000.jpg • “Scientific Name”. March 20, 2007. http://www.sandiegozoo.org/kids/images/read_scinames_frog.jpg • “Human Classification”. March 20, 2007. http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=389 • “Five Kingdoms”. March 20, 2007. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/5kingdoms.png/180px-5kingdoms.png • “Long whiskered owl”. March 28, 2007. http://find.msn.com/search.aspx?q=Owlet+xenoglaux&c=0328+Owlet&form=MSNHM3