Biodiversity and Taxonomy

• What is Biodiversity?


  Biodiversity is the variety of life on Earth and the independence of all living things
• Why is biodiversity important?


  For a sustainable and diverse ecosystem
• What are the Three levels of biodiversity?


  Species Diversity, Genetic Diversity, and Ecosystem Diversity
• Species Diversity:


  The number of species present
• Genetic Diversity:


  The variety of genes within a species
• Ecosystem Diversity:


  Variety of natural systems (providing homes and services to species present in the community)
• Classification of Biodiversity (in order):


  Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
• There are Three domains:


  1.) Bacteria

  2.) Archaea

  3.) Eukarya
• There are Six kingdoms:

  1.) Kingdom Bacteria 2.) Kingdom Archaea 3.) Kingdom Protista

  4.) Kingdom Plantae

  5.) Kingdom Fungi

  6.) Kingdom Animalia
• Scientific Names are referred to as its Binomial Name and requires:


  to be written in italics or underlined if handwritten
• Scientific Names are made up by the:


  Genus (always capitalized) and species (always lower case)
• Phylogeny describes:

  Evolutionary relationships of organisms, showing how they've evolved from each other and which species are closely related