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Taxonomy
chapter 18-1, of the modern biology text book
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is Taxonomy? | The branch of biology that names and groups organisms |
| what are the 7 levels of classification from largest to smallest? | Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species |
| what is the study of Taxonomy based on? | The organisms characteristics and its evoloutionary history |
| who was the first scientist to classify or group organisms? | Aristotle |
| how did he group these organisms? | plants: based on stem differences animals: land, air and water dwellers |
| how did Carl Van Linne classify organisms? | he used an organisms morphology to categorize organisms and Taxon to group them |
| how are names classified in Latin | the Genus and then the Species |