Classification of Living Organisms

• System developed by Carl Linnaeus
• • kingdom
  • phylum
  • class
  • order
  • family
  • genus
  • species
• organisms are named by the binomial system of genus and species
• Due to evidence form chemical analysis, there is not a tree-domain system developed by Carl Woese

  • archaea (primitive bacteria usually living in extreme environments)
  • bacteria (true bacteria)
  • eukaryota (which includes protists, fungi, plants, and animals)