Learning Goal 1
Describe the information needed to classify living things.
Taxonomy is the branch of biology that classifies all living things according to their characteristics that are visible and evoluntairy history.
Explain How scientists use phylogeny to group organisms into six kingdoms.
Phylogeny is the organism's evolutionary history which shows how an organism changed over time. By studying fossils, DNA and early stages of development phylogeny can be determined.
List the Linnaean classification groups from largest to smallest.
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
Identify the appropriate way scientifically name an organism.
Scientific names are used to avoid mistakes, are descriptive, group similar species together, and allows organization.
Binomial nomenclature takes the genus then the species, with the genus is capital and the species lowercase.
Explain two things that dichotomous keys help do.
DK identify and name species based on their characteristics. They are comprised of steps with two options which eventually leads to the scientific name.
Name the six kingdoms.
Eubacteria
Archaebacteria
Protista
Fungi
Animalia
Plantae