3.1 - Classification

Question 1

What is biodiversity?

Answer 1

A measure of the variety of living organisms and their genetic differences

Question 2

What is evolution?

Answer 2

The process by which natural selection acts on variation to bring about adaptations and eventually speciation.

Question 3

Why do we need to classify organisms?

Answer 3

• when biologists from different countries discuss a particular organism, they need to be sure they are all referring to the same one
• enables us to identify organisms
• can monitor how populations change
• to understand how different types of organisms are related to each other

Question 4

What is taxonomy?

Answer 4

Is the science of describing, classifying, and naming living organisms