Classification

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Chapter 3
Classification
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Chapter 3.1 Notes

• Classify- means to group thing together based on
  similarities.
• Trait- is a feature (look or behavior) that a
  thing has.

Traits are things like eye color, hair color,
tooth color, hand shape, size of foot, being a
tongue roller or not, finger shapes.
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Chapter 3.2 Notes

• Aristotle one of the 1st people to classify
  things. He put everything into two groups Plants
  and Animals

Land
Sea
Air
Shrub
Trees
Herbs
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• 1735 Carolus Linnaeus- developed new
  classification system.
• Changes
• Plants and animals into more groups.
• Based on specific traits.
• Gave organisms names that described their traits.

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• 7 Levels of Classification
• Kingdom Largest King
• Phylum Phillip
• Class Came
• Order Over
• Family From
• Genus Germany
• Species Smallest Swimming

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Human Classification Kingdom- Animals Phylum-
Chordates Class- Mammals Order- Primates Family-
hominidae Genus- Homo Species- sapiens
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• A rare owl not much bigger than a human fist was
  spotted for the first time in the wild in the
  Peruvian jungle last week (March 20, 2007). The
  bird with long, wispy feathers around its eyes
  was first discovered in 1976. Ornithologists
  believe only between 250 and 1,000 of the tiny
  animals, which occupy their own genus
  "Xenoglaux, exist on the planet.

Long-whiskered owlet
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Chapter 3.3 Notes

• Scientific Name- is the genus species. Genus is
  always CAPITILIZED and species is lower case.

This poison arrow frog's scientific name,
Dendrobates azureus, means blue tree-walker!
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• 5 kingdoms
• Plants- many cells, have chloroplast. Tree,
  flowers
• Fungi- have cell wall, no chloroplast. Mushroom,
  mold
• Animals- many cells, can move. Dog, cat,
  insects.
• Protist- 1 cell have nucleus, some have
  chloroplast. Amoeba, euglena.
• Monerans- I cell, no nucleus. Bacteria.

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Work Cited

• Kingdoms. March 15, 2007. http//www.abdn.ac.uk/
  zoologymuseum/images/kingdoms.jpg
• Traits. March 15, 2007. http//www.extension.ias
  tate.edu/e-set/science_is_here/Images/traits.gif
• Photo of traits. March 15, 2007.
  http//wappingersschools.org/RCK/staff/teacherhp/j
  ohnson/visualvocab/traits.jpg
• Aristotle. March 15, 2007. http//www.ecor.uni-s
  aarland.de/images/aristotle.gif
• Linnaeus. March 15, 2007. http//www.marcdatabas
  e.com/lemur/lemur.com/gallery-of-antiquarian-tech
  nology/worthies/famous-men-science-linnaeus-1200-s
  cale1000.jpg
• Scientific Name. March 20, 2007.
  http//www.sandiegozoo.org/kids/images/read_scinam
  es_frog.jpg
• Human Classification. March 20, 2007.
  http//cache.eb.com/eb/image?id389
• Five Kingdoms. March 20, 2007.
  http//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a
  4/5kingdoms.png/180px-5kingdoms.png
• Long whiskered owl. March 28, 2007.
  http//find.msn.com/search.aspx?qOwletxenoglaux
  c0328OwletformMSNHM3