Categorize organisms into a hierarchy of kingdoms, classes, orders, families, genera, and species based on shared physical characteristics.

_______, Phylum, Class, _______, Genera, Species

Groups at the top of the hierarchy (kingdom, phylum, class). True or false?

the science of classifying organisms 9describing, naming, and categorizing organisms)

The systematic groupings and naming of organisms based on shared structural similarities, functional similarities, or evolutionary history.

The study of the diversity of life and the relationship between organisms

Phonetics is one of the types of classification which is a method of analysis.

a method of classifying organisms that are based on her overall similarity in physical appearances.

____ is the evolutionary history group or lineage.

Cladistics differs from phenetics in that it is based on phylogeny, not on the observation of physical similarities.

It is a tree-like diagrams. These diagram consists of a series of branches and leaves that represents the evolution of groups of organisms through time.

Taxonomic unit, a group of organisms that has been named.

Aristotle

A swedish Botanist that is pioneer of modern taxonomy

Name of a book of Carolus Linnaeus that was published in 1735. Introduced a rather clever way to classify and name organisms.

Two Kingdoms

Three kingdoms

Four Kingdoms

Added Protista that included sing celled eukaryotes and bacteria (prokaryotes)

Plantae - Plants

Animalia - Animals

Introduction of the kingdom Bacteria

Kingdom of Fungi

The replacement of Kingdom bacteria into two bacteria; Eubacteria and Archabacteria.

It is based on molecular biology studies, and resulted in the placement of organisms into __________.

Any given animal or plant is given a scientific name consisting of ________.

ICBN mean

Every scientific name should have words either in Latin or be Latinized

Scientific naming Rule;

The first word refers to name of the _____, and the second word refers to the name of the _____.

Once an organism is identified and grouped, it is then described in terms of the various taxonomic categories to which it belongs. It is knows as _______.