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Is your closet organized?

Learn about the 6 kingdoms of living things and the importance of classification in organizing and understanding the diverse world of organisms. Explore the history of taxonomy and the concept of binomial nomenclature.

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Is your closet organized?

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  1. Is your closet organized?

  2. Living things are organized into 6 groups

  3. THE 6 KINGDOMS OF LIVING THINGS ARE: • Archaebacteria • Eubacteria • Protista • Fungi • Plants • Animals

  4. Why are things grouped (classified)? • Organization • Organization • Organization • Communication • Communication • Communication

  5. Classification • The systematic grouping of organisms into categories on the basis of evolutionary or structural relationships between them. • Also known as the science of taxonomy.

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  7. Early history • Aristotle-first to organize living things • 2 large groups-plant and animal

  8. Taxonomy • Is the science of naming and classifying organisms-has sub-groups and names • Father of taxonomy is Carl Linnaeus

  9. KPCOFGS • King • Phillip • Came • Over • For • Good • Spaghetti

  10. Humans Chimpanzee • Kingdom Animal Animal • Phylum Chordata Chordata • Class Mammalia Mammalia • Order Primates Primates • Family Hominadae Pongidae • Genus Homo Pan • Species sapiens troglodytes

  11. What is a primate? • hands and feet which are adapted for grasping, • their thumbs and big toes can be moved to touch the other digits and are known as opposable digits, • eyes on the front of the face - binocular vision. This is a great help in judging distance accurately,

  12. What do all hominids have? • bipedalism and large brains • share more than 97% of their DNA with the modern human genome, and exhibit a capacity for language or for simple cultures beyond the family.

  13. Binomial nomenclature • C. Linnaeus developed a system that gives a 2 word name to every organism. • The 2 word naming system is called binomial nomenclature • It helps to avoid confusion • It uses the Genus and species name only

  14. Some common names • Canis familiaris - dog • Felis domesticus - cat • Canis lupus - wolf • Vulpes vulpes - fox • Ichthyomyzon gagi - brook lamprey • Populus deltoides - cottonwood • Cercis canadensis - red bud • Diospyros virginiana - persimmon • Carya illinoensis - pecan

  15. Classification and evolution According to Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, members that are grouped together have similar characteristics because they descended from a common ancestor Classification shows the evolutionary relationships of organisms

  16. A dichotomous key • is used to identify organisms that you do not already know. • Means "two forks". • A dichotomous key is one tool that can be used to identify trees or any other organism

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