BIOL 1002 Chapter : Bio Chapter 19

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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. Organizing or grouping things helps in dealing with life. There are many ways that things may be grouped. One of the early classification systems placed the animal 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. Genus is the first name and it"s capitalized. Species is the second name and it"s lower case. These categories are further divided into smaller and smaller groupings creating an organizational hierarchy. The lowest two categories (genus and species) make up the scientific name for an organism. The major taxonomic categories from most inclusive (biggest set) to least inclusive (smallest set) are:

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