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170 Organizing Life’s Diversity

morphology

binominal

nomenclature

class

division

domain

family

genus

kingdom

order

phylum

classification

taxon

taxonomy

Organizing Life’s Diversity

Section 17.1 The History of Classification

Scan Section 1 of the chapter. Write three questions that come to

mind from reading the headings and the illustration captions.

1.

2.

3.

Use your book or dictionar y to define morphology.

Classify each term at the left as being part of Linnaeus’ two-word

naming system or a taxonomic group.

New

Vocabulary

Use your book to define each term.

Linnaeus’ System Taxonomic Group

Review

Vocabulary