STM 008 (SAS 23) IDENTIFYING THE CLASSIFICATION OF ORGANISM

8 ) DKP COFGS

• The further you go up, the less specific the classification of organisms is and vice versa.

• Taxonomic Classification

  • Is a hierarchical system that's used for classifying organisms to the species level. 

  • Its broadest classifications are the domain and kingdom and the most specific are the genus and species. 

• Taxonomy

  • The assigning of a universally

    accepted name to a species.

• Taxon 

  • A group of organisms at any particular level in a classification. 

  • In a plant taxonomy a division is equivalent to phylum.

  • A related group of genera comprise a family. 

  • The oldest level of taxonomic classification is genus.

• Are derived from the genus and species names in a system known Binomial Nomenclature (“bi” = two ; “nom” = name). 

• WHen species name appear in print, the genus is always capitalized and species name is not and if both names appear in italicized or underlined but not both.

• Ex: Homo sapiens or Homo sapiens