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Why do we group things?

Open Ended

What do you group together that makes your life easier?

Brief class discussion: of the things that we classify, how do we classify them and why do we classify them that way?

Just like we classify automobiles, types of foods, utensils; living things are classified as well

Multiple Choice

What is the two name system for naming organisms called?

• Taxonomic classification
• Species identification
• Genus and species naming
• Binomial nomenclature

Multiple Choice

What name comes first in binomial nomenclature?

• Genus
• Order
• Family
• Species

Open Ended

The full taxonomic description of the black bear is as follows:

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Subphylum: Vertebrata

Class: Mammalia

Order: Carnivora

Family: Ursidae

Genus: Ursus

Species: Americanus

What would be the binomial nomenclature of the black bear?

Multiple Choice

If the scientific name for a lion is Panther leo, the scientific name for a Jaguar is most likely

• Canis lupus

• Panthera onca

• Equus quagga

• Acer saccharum

Multiple Choice

The smallest classification group consists of:

• Organisms that are very different

• Organisms that do not look the same

• Organisms that are very similar

Multiple Choice

The rules for naming an organism are:

• Capitalize Genus, lowercase species, underline or italicize entire word
• Capitalize both Genus and species, underline or italicize the entire word
• write it how ever you want
• Capitalize Genus, lowercase species, make the entire word in bold print

Multiple Choice

Binomial Nomenclature takes which two taxons to name a species?

• Genus and Kingdom

• Phylum and Class

• Family and class

• Genus and species

Multiple Choice

What is the genus name here:
Canis lupus

• Canis
• lupus

Poll

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Without looking this up on your phone or computer -
do you think dogs and wolves have the same classification? Picture huskies and wolves.

• YES

• NO

• NOT SURE

Canis familiaris

wolves

Canis lupus

dogs

The nomenclature for each

​Are they the same genus or species?
Why do you think that is?

Dichotomous keys

this is a tool to identify organism based on paired either/or statements based on traits where you narrow down the possibilities until one choice is left

Activity: dichotomous key for minions

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OMIQgLoskXv7nkB6ub8nopYdkyrbfKnx/edit

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