CIENCIAS DE LA NATURALEZA

1 DE E.S.O.
PRIMER TRIMESTRE FIRST TERM

Chapter 3:
Life on Earth

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The Greek Aristotle developed the first classification system.

It was used for nearly 2000 years

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Other attepms of classifying living things

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The most important attemps of

classifying living things are:

Prokaryotic Eukaryotic
cells cells

In your book, the five-kingdom system is used. Well

use all of them, except that of Linnaeus, of course.
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Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778)

Systema naturae (1735)
The classification systems of both Aristotle and Linnaeus started
with the same two groups: Plants and Animals. Linnaeus called
these groups kingdoms. But, unlike Aristotle, Linnaeus divided
kingdom into five levels: class, order, genus, species, and variety
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How do scientists classify living things? TAXA

Sumerize it in http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/thezone/an
your notebook imals/animalid/classify.htm#squirrel
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How do scientists name living things?

Each species is named by two words: The first indicating the

Genus and the second the species to which it belongs