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Classification

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Sorting things into groups

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Domain

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The three main groups that organisms are now sorted into: Archaea, Bacteria and Eukarya.

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Genus

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A group of similar organisms. The genus name is the first word in the scientific name for a species (the second word is the ‘species name’). Different closely related species belong to the same genus.

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Kingdom

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There are five kingdoms into which organisms are divided: plants, animals, fungi, protists and prokaryotes.

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Species

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A group of organisms that can reproduce with each other to produce offspring that will also be able to reproduce. Organism names have two Latin words – the first is its genus and the second is its species.