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Taxonomy

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    classifying living things
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  • The scientists credited with the "fixity of species"
    Linnaeus
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  • the science of heredity
    genetics
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  • science of classification
    taxonomy
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  • 1st scientist to group living things by color, size, and shape
    Aristotle
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  • Father of Modern Taxonomy
    Linnaeus
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  • We group things today based on
    similarities and differences
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  • How long have people been classifying things?
    for a thousands of years (long time)
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  • Studying living things became more prevalent during what time period?
    Renaissance
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  • Which scientist grouped plants based on similarities and had the idea of species?
    Ray
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  • Which scientist was one of the first to write about plants?
    Cordus
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  • Inventor of binomial nomenclature
    linnaeus
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  • Who received the concepts of scientific principles from God and wrote them down?
    Moses
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  • "After its kind" is what type of principle?
    species
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  • In binomial nomenclature, the first word is what part of speech?
    noun
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  • the structure of something and how it looks
    morphology
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  • List the taxa in order.
    kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
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