Taxonomy: Branch of biology that groups all life according to their characteristics and history All life on earth is placed into 1 of 6 kingdoms: –Eubacteria.

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3 Taxonomy: Branch of biology that groups all life according to their characteristics and history All life on earth is placed into 1 of 6 kingdoms: –Eubacteria –Archaea –Protista –Fungi –Plantae –Animalia

4 Developed classification system based on physical features Many rules still used today –Binomial Nomenclature: System of giving every organism 2 names –1 st word: Genus (broad) –2 nd word: Species (specific) Example: House cat –Genus: Felis (cougars, lions, tigers, cheetahs, etc…) –Species: catus

5 When Writing: –Genus capitalized –species lowercase –Underlined entirely Ex: Homo sapiens When Typing: –Same, except use italics Ex: Homo sapiens

6 7 individual levels (taxa) used to classify organisms Kingdom (broadest) Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species (specific) Allows relationships to be clearly seen

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10 The more levels in common...the more related the species.

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12 Kobe??? Who Cares!?!?!?! You recognize that the fungus is very similar to the infectious fungus known as Malassezia furfur. K: Fungi P: Basidiomycota C: Heterobasidiomycetes O: Tremellales F: Filobasidiaceae G: Malassezia S: furfur How can classification help this patient? Perhaps the Malassezia furfur treatment can be applied to our unknown disease. A patient walks in with an unknown fungal skin disease. You are able to partially classify the new fungus. K: Fungi P: Basidiomycota C: Heterobasidiomycetes O: Tremellales F: Filobasidiaceae G: ????? S: ?????

13 Kobe Kuiz 1)Who created the classification system used today? 2)Name the 6 kingdoms of life. 3)Which kingdom(s) are prokaryotic? 4)Which kingdom(s) may be unicellular? 5)Which two taxons make up an organisms binomial name? 6)Place the 7 levels of taxonomy in order from largest to smallest. 7)Name the 7 human taxa, from largest to smallest.