Today we will be explaining the seven classifications of life which help scientists put animals, plants, and other organisms into categories. Putting animals, plants, and organisms into categories is important because it helps scientists avoid confusion. This system was created by the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeaus in 1757, which we today refer to as binomial nomenclature. The seven classifications of life in descending order are: Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species. In 1990, three domains were created seperating single-celled organisms(archaea), unicellular microorganisms(bacteria), and complex celled organisms(eukarya), which includes protista, animalia, plantae, and fungi.
Questions for the Responder:
1.) What is the kingdom, phylum, class, and order of the reticulated python?
2.) Why is the classificaton of eukaryotes a controversial issue?
3.) Explain cladistics and why they are important to the subjects we are studying?
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1. Kingdom: Animalia
ReplyDeletePhylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertabrata
Order: Squamata
Family: Pythonidae
Genus: Python
Species: Reticulated Python
2. It's too broad..??..that's all I could find after 20 minutes of searching..
3. A method of analyzing the evolutionary relationships between groups to construct their family tree. The principle behind it is that organisms should be classified according to their evolutionary relationships. So it helps in figuring out what goes where using evolutionary relationships.