Taxonomy and Grouping

Taxonomy- sorting living organisms into groups of manageable size.

Similar organisms are place closely together and dissimilar ones further apart

Taxon- a level in classification heirarchy and is a collection of some organisms sharing basic features

Kingdom                                   King

Phylum  (internal workings)      Philip

Class                                        Called

Order                                        Order

Family                                       For

Genus                                      Great

Species                                    Sandwiches

Moving up the hierarchy from species to kingdom means that the relationship between species decreases.

To overcome…