Everything Life Sciences Grade 10

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A way to remember it is ”Kwaito People Come Out From Gauteng Singing” and by learning
this mnemonic you are going to remember the sequence in the classification system;

• Kingdom - Kwaito


• Phylum - People


• Class - Come


• Order - Out


• Family - From


• Genus - Gauteng


• Species - Singing

Activity: Constructing a mnemonic to remember the sequence of the classification sys-

tem

Make your own mnemonic to remember the sequence of the classification system

Aim:

Construct a mnemonic to allow learners to remember the sequence easily.

Materials:

None - just pen and paper and LOTS of imagination!

Instructions:

Make an easy to remember memory aid to remember the sequence of levels of the classifi-

cation system.

History of classification DUMMY

Aristotlea 4th century (384 to 322 BC) Greek philosopher divided organisms into two main
groups namely plants and animals. His system was used into the 1600’s. People who wrote
about animals and plants either used their common names in various languages or adopted
more-or-less standardized descriptions. Caspar Bauhin (1560–1624) took some important
steps towards the binomial system currently used by modifying many of the Latin descriptions
to two words.

Carolus Linnaeus (Carl Von Linne)was an 18th century (1707–1778) Swedish botanist and
physician. He classified plants and animals according to similarities in form and divided
living things into two main kingdoms namely — plant and animal kingdoms. He named the
plants and animals in Latin or used latinised names in his bookSpecies Plantarum(1753)
andSystema Naturae(1758).

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