Classification

• classification is organising living organisms into groups
• order of classification

  • kingdom
  • phylum
  • class
  • order
  • family
  • genus
  • species
• why do we classify organisms

  • easier to study
  • to recognise biodiversity
  • to understand how things are related
• binomial name

  first name from genus and second name from species
• scientist who created classification

  Carl Linnaeus