BIOL 1001 Chapter : CH 4 Student Outline
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Organisms are arranged or grouped by the science of taxonomy. --taxonomy is the branch of biology concerned with naming and classifying the diverse forms of life. Organizing or grouping things helps in dealing with them. (organizing and grouping) The same idea holds true for the study of life. There are many ways that things may be grouped. One of the early classification systems placed the animals in one group and the plants in another. The bacteria, fungi and many protists were considered plants while some of the protists were grouped with the animals. The origins of taxonomy date back to aristotle. However the foundation for modern classification, binomial nomenclature, was developed by linnaeus in the 1700"s. These categories are further divided into smaller and smaller groupings creating an organizational hierarchy. The lowest two categories of the taxonomic hierarchy (genus and species) make up the scientific name for an organism.
