Classification

• 5 Domain System:

  • Animals
  • Plants
  • Fungi
  • Prokaryotes - unicellular with no nucleus
  • Protists - unicellular eukaryotes
• Organisms Species Name = Genus + species
• 3 Domain System created by Carl Woesse:

  • Archaea - prokaryotic cells with genes that have unused sections of DNA
  • Bacteria - prokaryotic and no unused genes
  • Eukarya - eukaryotic cells with unused sections of DNA
• Linnaean Classification System by Carl Linnaeus:

  Domain

  Kingdom

  Phylum

  Class

  Order

  Family

  Genus

  Species