CLASSIFICATION OF ORGANISMS TAXONOMY TAXONOMY DESCRIBING CLASSIFYING AND
CLASSIFICATION OF ORGANISMS
TAXONOMY • TAXONOMY- DESCRIBING, CLASSIFYING, AND NAMING LIVING THINGS • ORGANISMS ARE CLASSIFIED BASED ON SHARED CHARACTERISTICS
HOW DOES THE NUMBER OF ORGANISMS IN EACH LEVEL CHANGE AS YOU MOVE CLOSER TO THE SPECIES LEVEL?
• DOMAIN • KINGDOM • PHYLUM • CLASS • ORDER • FAMILY • GENUS • SPECIES • DID KING PHILLIP COME OVER FOR GREAT SPAGHETTI? • DON’T KEEP PIRANHAS CAPTIVE OR FINGERS WILL GET SWALLOWED.
DOMAINS • THREE DOMAINS ARE BACTERIA, ARCHAEA, AND EUKARYA
DOMAIN: BACTERIA • ONLY ONE KINGDOM, EUBACTERIA • PROKARYOTIC • HAVE A CELL WALL BUT NO NUCLEUS OR OTHER ORGANELLES
DOMAIN: ARCHAEA • ONLY ONE KINGDOM, ARCHAEBACTERIA • PRKARYOTIC • SIMILAR TO BACTERIA BUT HAVE DIFFERENT GENES THAT ALLOW THEM TO SURVIVE IN HARSH/EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS
DOMAIN: EUKARYA • KINGDOMS: PROTISTA, FUNGI, PLANTAE, ANIMALIA • ALL EUKARYOTIC
PROTISTA • MOST UNICELLULAR BUT CAN BE MULTICELLULAR • CAN BE PRODUCERS OR CONSUMERS • SIMPLE CELL STRUCTURE
FUNGI • HAVE CELL WALLS • DECOMPOSERS • CAN BE UNICELLULAR OR MULTICELLULAR • MORE COMPLEX CELL STRUCTURE
PLANTAE • CELL WALL • PHOTOSYNTHESIS • MULTICELLULAR • COMPLEX CELL
ANIMALIA • NO CELL WALL • CONSUMERS • NEED OXYGEN • MULTICELLULAR • COMPLEX CELL STRUCTURE
CHOOSE AN ORGANISM AND USE THE 8 LEVELS OF CLASSIFICATION TO DESCRIBE YOUR ORGANISM.
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