14.5 Classification

Question 1

What is classification?

Answer 1

Organisation of living things into groups according to their similarities

Question 2

Why do biologists classify organisms

Answer 2

• Easier to study them
• understand how the different groups of living things are related to each other
• recognise the biodiversity
• gives scientists a common language

Question 3

How are living things classified

Answer 3

By their similarities and differences

Question 4

How were organisms orginially classified that Linnaeus made

Answer 4

• Grouped organisms depending on their stucture and charactersistics
• into a hierarchy

Question 5

Why have classification systems changed

Answer 5

• Development in microscopes to compare internal structures of cells
• when it was first devised the number of known types of living things was much smaller
• know more about biochemistry
• new models of classification were proposed

Question 6

Def of species

Answer 6

Group of organisms that can breed together and produce fertile offspring

Question 7

Order of classification

Answer 7

Domain
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species

Question 8

Neumonic of classification

Answer 8

Keep Ponds Clean Or Frogs Get Sick

Question 9

What is a binomial system

Answer 9

A system by which organisms are named, with two indicating the genus and species

Question 10

A reason for why the scientific names being in Latin

Answer 10

Universally accepted