Taxonomy

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Taxonomy

• What is the name of this animal?

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Taxonomy - The basics

• 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

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Binomial Nomenclature

• 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

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Example naming

• Here's an example for humans
• Genus Homo Species Sapiens
• Acceptable naming
• Homo sapiens
• Homo sapiens
• H. sapiens
• H. sapiens

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