Classifying Life

Choose the contributions to modern classification made by Carolus Linnaeus

• He placed organisms in groups based on their observable features.

• He ordered birds to avoid airplane chashes.

• He devised a naming system called binominal nomenclature.

• He organized the things located at a supermarket.

The scientific name given to an organism is based on binominal nomenclature.

• True

• False

The more classifications two organisms share, the less characteristics they have in common and the less related they are.

• True

• False

Naming system developed by Linnaeus

• Classification

• Binominal Nomenclature

• Genus

• Taxonomy

Process of grouping things based on their similarities.

• Classification

• Binominal Nomenclature

• Genus

• Species

A group of organisms that can mate and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce

• Binominal Nomenclature

• Genus

• Taxonomy

• Species

First word in an organism's scientific name

• Classification

• Genus

• Taxonomy

• Species

The scientific study of how things are classified

• Binominal nomenclature

• Classification

• Taxonomy

• Species