Taxonomy

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• Tags:: Science (MOC) - Biology
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• Created:: 2022-10-03

• See also → Biodiversity
• Taxonomy

  • Give unique scientific name to each species.

  • From dead languages

    • Latin
    • Greek

  • Species have common names

    • Ex:
      • Cougar
      • Puma
      • Mountain Lion
      • Blue crab
      • Lesser blue crab
      • Red blue crab

  • See also → 4 Archive/22-23 Work/Biology - 20 Animals Activity

  • Aristotle

    • Indentified 1000 species into animals and plants. Split into land, sea and air.
    • Problems with overlapping species, etc.

  • John Ray

    • Introduced concept of species and a more comprehensive classification system.

  • Carl Linnaeus

    • Who was the father of taxonomy?::Carl Linnaeus

    • Morphology

      • Physical and strucural features of animals and plants.
      • Similar features means closer relationship between species.

    • Developed binomial naming (nomenclature) of species.

    • Binomial Nomenclature

    • 7 Level System

      • Goes from broad to narrow in species range.
      • What is the mnemonic for memorizing level systems::Dumb king phillip came over for gooseberry soup. Dumb kinky people come over for good sex. Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.

  • Dichotomous Keys

    • Identify living things via physical characteristics.