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The Living World: Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family
The Living World: Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family
• Twin charachteristics
1. Mass
THE LIVING WORLD • Exclusively for plants
• Dried plant specimens are presumed
2. Number
• Not a defining feature on sheets, with certain information
CONSCIOUSNESS like date & place of collection are
name of the collector. MISCELLANEOUS
• Responding to stimuli
REPRODUCTION • Flora: Accounts the distribution
• Sensing the environment BOTANICAL GARDEN of plants in a region
• Humans are – self conscious Sexual
• By two ways • Manuals : Gives information
Asexual • Place for living plants Labelled
• Defining character. for identification of species in
• All living being reproduce with biological name
a region
for continuity of species • Indian Botanical Garden, Howrah
• Monographs : It has collective
ORGANISATION METABOLISM
TAXONOMICAL
• All organism (uni &
• All organisms are multicellular) experience AID
composed of cells metabolic reaction at any
• Defining character
S
given time
• Body organization starts
IC
HA • Involves catabolism &
C
R A C T E RIS T
with sub-microscopic
anabolism
molecular level.
• Cellular metabolism is
defining feature ZOOLOGICAL PARK
• Commonly
called Zoos MUSEUM
• To protect • Plants and animals
wild animals
KEY specimens are stored
• Establised in
in their • On the basic of similarities & dissimilarites
educations institutions
protected •
used for identification
environment • Each statement- lead
• Pair of Contrasting characters- Couplet
SYSTEMATIC
• Branch of science dealing
with organism's diversity
CLASSIFICATION
& their relationship. • Done by analysing the similarities TAXONOMICAL CATEGORIES
• scope: •
•
CHARACTERIZATION
IDENTIFICATION
& Dissimilarities among organism.
KINGDOM Most
Inclusive
• CLASSIFICATION • Taxon which is : Unit of biological classification;
• NOMENCLATURE sometimes confused with categories.
ses
V
DI IN Bryophyta - taxon
BINOMIAL
e a
NOMENCLATURE
ecr
CLASS
sd
• Plants named by ICBN
• Animals named by ICZN
r
cte
• By Carolus Linnaeus
• Bionomial Name/ scientific
ra
name (has two parts)
ORDER
ha
– Generic name: starts with
c
capital letters
– Specific epithet: starts with
on
lI V L D small letters m m
IN G W O R • When typed – in italics
FAMILY
o
of c
• When handwritten – underlined
• Author’s name may be added
at the end of biological name
be r
Num
BOOKS GENUS
• Systems Naturae - Linnaeus
• Genera Plantarum - Linnaeus SPECIES
Less
Inclusive