Hierarchy of Classification Groups - Biology
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Biological classification is a scientific method used to group and categorize organisms into taxonomic ranks such as genus and species. Biologists have tried to classify all living things into seven main kingdoms. The taxonomic ranks from broadest to most specific are: kingdom, phylum/division, class, order, family, genus, and species, with species being the basic unit of biological classification.
Hierarchy of Classification Groups - Biology
- 2. Introduction Biological classification, or scientific classification in biology, is a method of scientific taxonomy used to group and categorize organisms into groups such as genus or species. These groups are known as taxon.
- 3. Biologist such as Ernst Haeckel, Robert Whittaker and Carl Woese have tried to classify all living organisms into broad categories called kingdoms.
- 4. Kingdom Seven chief groups make up Phylum / Division a system in scientific classification .The groups Class are: Order Family Genus Species
- 5. Kingdom • Kingdom is the largest unit of biological classification. • In the animal kingdom, the term phylum is used instead of division , in the plant kingdom.
- 6. Species It is the basic unit of classification. Members of a species can breed with one another, and on growing up, the young ones look very much like the parents. No two species in a genus have the same scientific name