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Unit 4 Lesson 1 How Are Living Things Grouped?
Classification
Dichotomous key
Domain
Genus
species
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Unit 4 Lesson 1 How Are Living Things Grouped?
When you visit Carrefour to buy chocolate, how do you find it?
Why Classify? – Warm Up 1
Why Classify?
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• Scientists use classification to organize living
things into similar groups.
• Why? Scientists classify organisms so that
they can understand how organisms are
related.
Unit 4 Lesson 1 How Are Living Things Grouped?
Why Classify?
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Unit 4 Lesson 1 How Are Living Things Grouped?
Why Classify?
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Unit 4 Lesson 1 How Are Living Things Grouped?
Why Classify?
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Unit 4 Lesson 1 How Are Living Things Grouped?
•How?
•Cell type,
•cell structure
•genetic information
•Shape
•Size
•Symmetry
Unit 4 Lesson 1 How Are Living Things Grouped?
Why Classify?
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• A dichotomous key is a chart with many choices that guide you to the name of what you want to identify.
Unit 4 Lesson 1 How Are Living Things Grouped?
Why Classify?
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Classifying Living Things
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• Domains and kingdoms are the broadest levels of classification.
• Organisms are classified into one of three domains. A domain is the broadest level of classification.
• Organisms are separated into domains by their cell structures.
• Organisms are more closely related to each other as you continue down each level of classification.
Unit 4 Lesson 1 How Are Living Things Grouped?
Classifying Living Things
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Classifying Living Things
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Unit 4 Lesson 1 How Are Living Things Grouped?
Classifying Living Things
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• Kingdoms are the first level of classification. Organisms in kingdoms are grouped into phyla.
• A phylum can be broken into classes. The next level is order, which can be further divided into families. A genus is a subdivision of a family.
• Organisms are finally classified as species, or unique organisms.
• King Philip Can Only Find Green Shoes
Unit 4 Lesson 1 How Are Living Things Grouped?
Classifying Living Things
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Unit 4 Lesson 1 How Are Living Things Grouped?
Plants
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• There are more than 320,000 species of plants.
• Plants are made of many cells and use sunlight to make food.
• Plants are classified according to their structures and how they use those structures to live.
Unit 4 Lesson 1 How Are Living Things Grouped?
Plants
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• Some plants have vascular
tissue, which consists of long, narrow tubes that transport materials throughout the plant.
Unit 4 Lesson 1 How Are Living Things Grouped?
Plants
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• Plants are also classified by how they reproduce. Some produce seeds in fruits, some produce seeds in cones, and some produce no seeds.
• Some plants use flowers to reproduce. Flowering plants make up the largest number of species in the plant kingdom.
Unit 4 Lesson 1 How Are Living Things Grouped?
Animals
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• Most animals are made of multiple cells and cannot make their own food.
• Animals are divided into two groups. Vertebrates are animals with backbones, such as fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and mammals.
• Invertebrates are animals without backbones, such as insects, worms, jellyfish, and sponges. They make up about 95% of Earth’s animals.
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Animals
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• Some of the other factors used to classify animals include their body structures and how they take in oxygen and digest food.
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Fungi Warm Up 4
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Fungi
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• Fungi 1. Do not make food from sunlight. 2. They feed on dead or decayed
materials.
• Mushrooms and yeasts are a type of fungus. Unlike mushrooms, yeasts are made up of only one cell. Some yeast cells can be seen only with a microscope.
• Scientists classify fungi according to size, shape, and the way they reproduce.
Unit 4 Lesson 1 How Are Living Things Grouped?
Fungi – Class Work
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Protists
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• Kingdom Protista is very diverse. Protists may look or act like plants, fungi, or even animals.
• Most protists are made up of only one microscopic cell, but some protists live in large colonies that look like a single organism.
Unit 4 Lesson 1 How Are Living Things Grouped?
Protists
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• Protists can move by forming structures to drag themselves or by using hair-like structures to move in water.
• Many protists don’t move at all.
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Protists
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• Scientists classify protists as plants, animals, or fungi.
• Plant-like protists use sunlight to make food and are classified according to size and color.
• Animal-like protists can move and capture prey.
• Fungus-like protists grow and feed like fungi.
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Bacteria
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• Bacteria are microscopic and cover the surfaces of everything you see.
• Bacteria can cause disease and pollute lakes, but they can also be used to make foods, such as yogurt and cheese. Bacteria can even help us digest food.
• Bacteria are classified according to shape, size, how they get food, and whether or not they use oxygen. Ex. Cyanobacteria.
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Archaea
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• Archaea are single-celled organisms similar to bacteria. They are classified in separate domains because their structures and genetic materials differ.
• Archaea live in extreme environments, such as hot springs, where nothing else survives.
• Archaea get energy from unusual resources, such as ammonia or sulfur gas. Ex. sulfolobus
Unit 4 Lesson 1 How Are Living Things Grouped?
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Unit 4 Lesson 1 How Are Living Things Grouped?
Example Description of kingdom Kingdom
lion Made of many cells, do not make their own food
Animalia
Pine tree Made up of many cells, use sunlight to make food.
Plantae
Bread mold Feeds on dead or decaying matter
Fungi
Paramecium Classified as whether they
look like plants, animals, or fungi
Protista
Cyanobacteria Single cell: can be useful Bacteria
sulfolubus Single cell: lives in extreme environments
Archaea
Class Work
Example Description of kingdom Kingdom
Made of many cells, do not make their own food
Made up of many cells, use sunlight to make food.
Feeds on dead or decaying matter
Classified as whether they
look like plants, animals, or fungi
Single cell: can be useful
Single cell: lives in extreme environments