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    Taxonomy is the process of classifying organisms based on their similarities and differences. It uses a taxonomic hierarchy with multiple levels including species, genus, family, order, class, phylum, and kingdom. At each successive level, organisms share fewer similarities as they are grouped into broader categories. The species level shows the highest similarity between organisms, which are then grouped into genera of closely related species, families of related genera, and so on up to the kingdom level, which divides all life into six main groups.

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    Taxonomy is the process of classifying organisms based on their similarities and differences. It uses a taxonomic hierarchy with multiple levels including species, genus, family, order, class, phylum, and kingdom. At each successive level, organisms share fewer similarities as they are grouped into broader categories. The species level shows the highest similarity between organisms, which are then grouped into genera of closely related species, families of related genera, and so on up to the kingdom level, which divides all life into six main groups.

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    Taxonomy:

    Classification and
    Hierarchy of Organisms
    Introduction
    According to the history of biological classification,

    Aristotle ( a Greek philosopher)

    classified different animals based on the habitat, characteristics and lot more.

    Carolus Linnaeus (Swedish botanist)

    Introduced Taxonomic Hierarchy Categories during the 18th Century.

    What is Taxonomy?
    - a branch of Biology that refers to the process of naming and classifying different living species into their kingdoms based
    on their similarities and differences.

    - Greek word – “taxis”, meaning arrangement or division, and “nomos”, meaning method.
    The Taxonomic hierarchy
    is the process of arranging various

    - Groups - class
    - other categories

    into successive levels of the biological


    classification
    The Taxonomic Classification System

    Species Genus
    Shows the high level of similarities among the organisms. This taxonomic group comprises several species which
    One species can be distinguished from other closely have similar characteristics but different from that of
    related species based on distinct differences in species from another genus.
    morphology.
    Family
    genus which shares some similarities among themselves. However, the number of similarities decrease compared to species and
    genus.

    Order
    has fewer comparisons as an effect, they are grouped based on

    aggregates of characteristics. A group of families showing somewhat

    few similarities forms an order.


    Class Phylum
    A group of Orders which share a few similarities forms a This is the next level of classification was along a number
    Class. of Classes are clubbed up to form one Phylum.

    For Example – Aves, fishes, reptiles, mammals, and


    amphibians combined to form the Phylum Chordata or
    phylum of Vertebrates
    Kingdom
    - highest level of classification, which is divided into subgroups at various levels.

    - There are 6 kingdoms in taxonomy, namely


    Criteria for Animal Classification
    References:
    https://byjus.com/biology/taxonomic-hierarchy/

    https://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/thezone/animals/animalid/kingdom.htm#kingdoms

    L.A.J. Bayan (2017). Kingdom of Life [Powerpoint Presentation], Adamson University

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