How We Classify Living Things

Name: How We Classify Living Things
Author: StemPy Lab

A library puts books in order, so that you can find one. Biologists do the same for living things. In this course we learn why and how we sort them, how the groups go from large to small, how a scientific name is written, and what the five kingdoms are.

3 lessons, about 1 h 20 min3 simulations10 problems6 practice questionsPython in every lesson

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Course outline (3 lessons)

Lesson 1about 25 min
Why we classify, and the basis of classification
Classification means sorting living things into groups by their features. We use the features that decide the basic plan of the body, such as the kind of cell, the number of cells and the way of getting food. Simpson's diversity index puts a number to the biodiversity of a place.
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Lesson 2about 30 min
The hierarchy of groups and scientific names
The groups go from kingdom, phylum, class, order, family and genus down to species, from the largest to the smallest. Living things that share more levels are more closely related. A scientific name has two parts, the genus and the species, and it is the same in every country.
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Lesson 3about 25 min
The five kingdoms
In the five kingdom system of Whittaker, living things are put in Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae and Animalia. The kingdoms are decided by the kind of cell, the number of cells, the cell wall and the way of getting food.
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How We Classify Living Things

Course outline (3 lessons)

Why we classify, and the basis of classification

The hierarchy of groups and scientific names

The five kingdoms

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