Classification Guided Notes
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Early people noticed that plants and animals were ________ and they put them in _____.
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Aristotle: a Greek __________ in 4th century BC was the first known person to
_________ organisms.
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He first classified organisms as _______ or __________.
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Later he classified the blood group (_______) according to the way they moved or where
they________.
List the 3 groups
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He classified the _____________. (Plants)
List the 3 groups
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Without knowing what they were doing people like Aristotle developed simple
classification systems. _______________ is the grouping of organisms according to similar
characteristics.
The science of classification is called __________________. Aristotle’s system lasted for
nearly ________ years.
In the 1600’s John ______ an English Biologist set an enormous goal to ________, name,
and classify all the plants and animals in _________.
Unlike _________, Ray based his system of Classification on the _________ anatomy of
plants and animals. He was also the first to use the term __________. ________is a group
of organisms that are able to __________ and produce young.
Carolus Linnaeus’ a _________ scientist lived between (________). He spent the major
part of his life developing a new ________ of classification. He placed all plants and
animals into groups according to their _____________ (structure) as well as behavior.
For example birds were placed in 3 major groups. List them below.
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Before his system, the system they used was very ___________. Sometimes __ or __
Latin words were used to describe a single organism. Linnaeus devised a simple naming
system that is called ______________ _____________________.
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