Classification

Why Classify?
About 1.5 million species named and 2-100 million species yet to be discovered.

Taxonomy =science of classifying organisms--groups similar organisms together--assigns each a name

Naming Organisms:Organisms have common & scientific name -all organisms have only 1 scientific name-usually Latin or Greek-
developed by Carolus Linnaeus
The scientific name is always italicized if typed or underlined if you write it straight.

1. the first word:Genus's first letter is capitalized.
2. the second word:Specific name is not capitalized.

Scientific names can be abbreviated by using the capital letter of the genus and a period: Example. P. leo (lion)
Members of the same genus are closely related. Only members of the same species can interbreed (under natural conditions)
This two-word naming system is called
Binomial Nomenclature
-written in italics (or underlined)-1st word is Capitalized --Genus-2nd word is lowercase ---species
Examples: Homo sapiens, Panthera leo , Panthera tigris

reference:
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