Classifying Organisms 16-23
Why do scientists classify
Organizing stuff makes it easier to use
placing things into groups
clasification
when an organism is classified (crow is a bird)
naming organisms
Binomial nomenclature (two names)
genus is the first word in the two word scientific name of an animal
the genus is the grouping that contains similar traits such as cats and pumas both have the felis genus
the second word describes specific features of an animal ex: a house can is Felis domesticus because of domestic means of the house.
the two words tell the which species
levels of clasification
most to least, the more levels you share, the more you have in common
domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
Taxonomic keys
useful for determining identity of organisms
start with the first step and then go where it tells you to go
Evolution and clasification
Darwin's theory claimed that species do change
it is called evolution