Taxonomy: The 7-Layer Classification System
What’s in an Organism’s Name? Each organism has a unique name. The
name is compose of the Genus, which is a noun (person place or thing, and
appears capitalized in print), and the species, which is usually an adjective (a
descriptive word) or the name of the scientist who discovered it (an appears
in lowercase letters in print).
Example: Acer rubrum Acer means maple, rubrum means red.
Taxonomy: the science of classifying living things.
The 7-Layer Classification System
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
Classification becomes more and more specific the further down the system
you go.
An easy way to remember the sequence of the classification system is to
remember the following sentence made up of words with the same first
letters of the 7-layer system:
King Philip Came Over From Germany Smiling.
Or
King Philip Came Over From Germany Secretly.
We currently have 5 Kingdom is the Taxonomic system: Animalia, Plantae,
Protista, Fungi, and Monera