BIOL 1002 Chapter : Ch 18 Notes
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Example: grocery store or your closet: the same idea holds true for the study of life, there are many ways that things may be grouped, plants verses animals. 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: organisms are classified or grouped into categories. 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: example: homo sapiens. The genus name is capitalized and the species name begins with a lowercase letter.