Classification

living things come only from other living things

biogenesis
the idea that living things come from nonliving things

spontaneous generation
Aristotle

was the first to start classifying living things (Greek philospher)
started classifying organisms with similar structures in 18th century

Sweedish Scientist Linnaeus
What is Linnaeus' system of classification called?

binomail nomenclature
Scientists can see how similar organisms are at cellular level by...

the number of chromosomes
knowing how an organism changed over time

phylogeny
a _____ is the 1st and largest category

kingdom
the smallest clasification is called...

species
groups larger than kingdoms

domains
a detailed list of identifying characteristics used to identify organisms

dichotomous keys
Aristotle either classified things as ____ or ____

plants or animals
Aristotle broke down the plant and animal smaller groups called...

2 legs are 4, hair or no hair, blood or no blood
a group of similar species

genus

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Classification

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2010-09-01T01:16:10Z

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