Classification Vocabulary
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Classification and Taxonomic Rank
By Oliver Smith
Scientists have discovered over a million different species of living things on Earth, but they estimate there could be as many as nine million in total. Scientists have devised a way of classifying these organisms, not only to organize them, but also to highlight similarities and differences. Learn more at Storyboard That!
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Organism Classification Vocabulary
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- BINOMIAL NOMENCLATURE
- MULTICELLULAR
- UNICELLULAR
- A system of naming living things using two names that comes from the genus and the species
- Genus Species
- Ursa Maritimus
- An organism that consists of many cells, e.g. oyster mushrooms
- An organism that consists of a single cell, e.g. E. Coli
- AUTOTROPHIC
- Classification Vocabulary
- HETEROTROPHIC
- An organism that can make its own food, e.g. green plants
- An organism that can't manufacture its own food and needs to take nutrients in from outside sources, e.g. a cat
Image Attributions
- E. coli Bacteria - NIAID - (License Attribution )
- Green plant - Maria Keays - (License Attribution )
- I'm Not A Bad Looking Bear After All - Christopher.Michel - (License Attribution )
- Lions having lunch - Derek Keats - (License Attribution )
- Oyster Mushrooms Pleurotus ostreatus - a.zhi - (License Attribution )
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