Taxonomy
What is the name of this animal?
Taxonomy
- Taxonomy is the science of naming living things
- Names must be uniform so scientists can describe an organism regardless of their native languages
- Organisms are classified according to the following order
- Kingdom
- Phylum
- Class
- Order
- Family
- Genus
- Species
- Naming of organisms is by the rules of Binomial Nomenclature
- The name is typically in latin
- The name must be either italicized, or underlined
- Organisms are labeled according to a two name system
- The First name is the Genus of the organism
- Genus Must always be capitalized.
- It may be abbreviated with a capital letter
- The second name is the species name
- it must also either be italicized, or underlined
Genus: Homo
Species: Sapiens
Acceptable naming:
Homo sapiens
Homo sapiens
H. sapiens
H. sapiens
Old Kingdom Classification
Revised 3 Domain System
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