Lesson 8 of 10
The big picture
Show on a big screenEvery idea here answers one question: what decides a group?
| Idea | Remember | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Why classify | Shared features make groups. A new feature, new groups | eat: flesh or plants |
| A clean feature | Every member answers yes or no | backbone: yes or no |
| What decides a group | Inherited features group well | thorns vs. a nibbled leaf |
| Groups inside groups | Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species | lion: 7 ranks |
| Five kingdoms | Cell type, cell number, how it feeds | Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia |
| Scientific names | Genus, then species, in italics | Panthera tigris |
| What does not fit | No cells fits none of the five | a virus |
Now open Chapter 12 in your NCERT book. It is called Patterns in Life: Diversity and Classification. Every idea on this page is one you can name.