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Classification of Plants and Animals
Science Study Guide
What is classification?
• The process of grouping similar things together.
How is it useful to scientists?
• Helps classify plants and animals in manageable way.
• Grouping living things by similarities and differences.
How do you classify organisms?
• Kingdom• Phyla• Class• Order• Family• Genus• Species
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How do scientists group organisms?
• Grouping organisms by features they share.• Shape• Size• Body parts• Color
What are the five kingdoms of living things?
• Animals• Plants• Bacteria• Fungi• Protists
What is the main difference between members of the plant
kingdom and members of animal kingdom?
• Plants make their own food• Animals eat other living things
What are the characteristics of living things?
• Breath (oxygen or carbon dioxide)• Eat (makes own food or eats other living
things)• Reproduce• Grow• Change• Live (habitat)
How are animals classified into groups?
• The largest way animals are broken into groups is based on whether they have backbones or have no backbone.
What are animals with backbones called?• Vertebrates (with a
backbone)• This group includes:
• Fish• Amphibians• Reptiles• Birds• Mammals
What are the characteristics of fish?
• Vertebrates• Cold-blooded• Have gills and
scales• Live in water
What are the characteristics of reptiles?
• Vertebrates• Cold-blooded• Have scales• Live on land• Usually lay eggs
What are the characteristics of amphibians?
• Vertebrates• Live in or around
water• Cold-blooded• Have smooth
skin (must be kept moist)
• Lay eggs
What are the characteristics of birds?
• Vertebrates• Have hollow
bones• Have feathers• Warm-blooded• Most can fly• Lay eggs• Have beaks
What are the characteristics of mammals?
• Vertebrates• Have fur or hair• Warm-blooded• Feed milk to their
young• Bear live young
(except platypus’-lay eggs)
What are animals without backbones called?• Invertebrates (without a
backbone• This group includes:
• Sponges• Anemones• Jellyfish• Worms• Snails• Sea stars• Mollusks
• Urchins• Insects• Spiders• Ticks• Lobsters• Crabs• Crayfish
What are invertebrates?
Without a backbone!
Classification of Plants
How are plants classified into groups?
• Plants have characteristics that are similar and different too.
• Two major types of plants: • Vascular• Nonvascular
What are vascular plants?
• Plants that have tiny ‘tubes’ that run between the roots and leaves.
• Examples:• Trees• Ferns• Grass
Pictures of magnified vascular plants?
Enlarged picture of ash wood tree. Notice long vascular tubing.
Major vascular vein in Zinnia leaf. Coiled tubing.
More pictures of vascular plants.
Magnified horizontal view (400x). The strands consist of tubes with spirally thickened walls that appear like minute coiled springs.
What are nonvascular plants?• Plants that do not
have tissue that carries water from root to leaf.
• Examples:• Mosses• Liverworts• Hornworts
Picture of nonvascular plant.
A small mushroom emerging from a clump of mosses and liverworts on a shady, moist bank in southern California.
Classification Review
• Plants and Animals are ‘multi-celled’ organisms.
• 7 ways to classify all living things• Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family,
genus, species
• 5 Kingdoms are: • Animals, Plants, Bacteria, Fungi, and
Protists