Classifying Life: Organizing the Diversity of Organisms

The video tutorial explains how to organize a digital music collection by genre, artist, and album to easily find specific songs. It then draws a parallel to how scientists classify living organisms, starting from the most inclusive group, domain, to the least inclusive, species. Using humans as an example, the video details each classification level: domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species. It also covers scientific naming conventions and provides a mnemonic to remember the classification hierarchy.

What is the first step in organizing a large digital music collection?

• By song name

• By artist

• By genre

• By album

Why is it important to label each song by its individual name?

• To improve sound quality

• To make it easier to find specific songs

• To reduce the number of folders

• To increase the file size

What is the most inclusive group in biological classification?

• Family

• Species

• Genus

• Domain

Which domain do humans belong to?

• Bacteria

• Archaea

• Animalia

• Eukarya

What characteristic is shared by all organisms in the phylum Chordata?

• They can fly

• They have a backbone

• They produce milk

• They have fur

Which class do humans belong to?

• Mammalia

• Reptilia

• Aves

• Amphibia

What is the correct format for writing the scientific name of an organism?

• Both genus and species in lowercase

• Species first, genus second

• Genus first, species second

• Both genus and species capitalized

How should the scientific name of an organism be formatted in text?

• Bold

• Uppercase

• Underlined

• Italics

What is the mnemonic provided to remember the classification levels?

• Dear King Peter Came Over For Good Soup

• Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge

• My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Noodles

• Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally

Which level of classification is the least inclusive?

• Species

• Domain

• Genus

• Kingdom