INTERESTING FACTS
- There are 13 billion known species of organisms
- This is only 5% of organisms ever lived!
- New organisms are still being found and identified
- Classification is the arrangement of organisms into orderly groups based on their similarities
- Classification is also known as taxonomy
- Taxonomists are scientist that identify & name organisms
- 1st taxonomists, 2000 years ago: ARISTOTLE
- Standardized Naming:
- Biomial nomenclature
- Genus species
- Latin/Greek
- Italicized in print
- CAPITALIZE GENUS, but not species
- Underline when writing
- EG: HOMO sapiens (PRINT)
PROBLEMS IN CLASSIFYING ORGANISMS
Species are mutated/ cross-breeding -.-
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