Classification

The importance of classification

• Classification helps us classify things to make them easier to identify, remember and describe

• It helps us in everyday life as we can classify things to conclude if it’s dangerous, poisonous, etc

Grouping to order and organise

• Taxonomy is the study of classifying living organisms

• The 7 classifications of taxonomy in order from largest to smallest is: kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus and species

Made up of cells

• Cells are the building blocks of all living things

• Organisms made up of one cell are called unicellular

• Organisms made up of many cells are called multicellular

• Cells that don’t have a membrane-bound nucleus are called prokaryotic

• Cells that have a membrane-bound nucleus are called eukaryotic

Kingdom systems

• There are 6 different kingdoms. They are: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Archaea and Bacteria

Plants and pigments

• Chlorophyll is the green pigment found in the chloroplasts of plant cells

• Chlorophyll can be extracted from plants turn into a natural dye

Binomial nomenclature

• Binomial nomenclature is a system where each species has a name made up of two words

• The first word is the genus name

• The second word is the description name

• The genus name should start with an uppercase letter and the descriptive name should start with a lowercase letter

• If written, the species name should be underlined

• If typed, the species name should be in italics

Important People

• Carl Linnaeus is the" “father of taxonomy” because his classification system formed the basis of our current system

• Robert Whittaker proposed the five-kingdom system