Why is it useful to classify living things?

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Why is it useful to classify living things?
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WALT Know why animals and plants have Latin
names.

• WILF
• 1. Explain why naming and classifying living
  things is important.
• 2. Describe Carl Linnaeuss significant
  contribution to science.
• 3. Understand how the twin Latin names of living
  things are made.

3
WALT Know why animals and plants have Latin
names.

• http//www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/science-of-natu
  ral-history/biographies/linnaeus/

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WALT Know why animals and plants have Latin
names.
Linnaeus 3 Kingdoms Stones (Minerals) Plants Ani
mals Kingdom Order Class Genus Species
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WALT Know why animals and plants have Latin
names.
Woodlouse
Pill bug Roly Poly bug
How do we know what animal people are talking
about?
Armadillium vulgare
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Naked mole rat
Angler fish
Living stones
Dugong
Living stones
Baobab tree
Naked mole rat
Venus flytrap
Angler fish
Clown frogfish
Dumbo octopus
Dugong
Baobab tree
Venus flytrap
Clown frogfish
Dumbo octopus
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WALT Know why animals and plants have Latin
names.

• WILF
• 1. Explain why naming and classifying living
  things is important.
• 2. Describe Carl Linnaeuss significant
  contribution to science.
• 3. Understand how the twin Latin names of living
  things are made.

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WALT Know why animals and plants have Latin
names.
Twinflower (Linnaea borealis) The only plant
named after Carl Linnaeus