Classification Flashcards
Action or process of classifying something according to shared qualities or characters
Classification
Branch of science concerned with classification , especially of organisms systematics
Taxonomy
2 Rank in a Taxonomic category. There are 5 of them
Kingdom
3 highest Rank.
Phylum
4Highest Rank
Class
5Highest Rank
Order
6 Highest Rank
Family
7 Highest Rank
Genus
Lowest Rank
Species
All animals that move spontaneously and independently at some point in their lives
Animalia
Some stage of development a notochord, dorsally situated nervous system and Gill Clefts, Vertebrates, Lancelets and Tunicates
Chordata
Warm Blooded higher vertebrates that nourish their young with milk
Mammalia
Monkeys and Apes
Primate
Humans and their Fossil ancestors
Hominid
Founder of the Taxonomy system
Linnaeus