Taxonomy, Classification & Species
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“Taxonomy, Classification & Species” - BiologyPod Episode 4 2009 brought to you by Simon Cohen – email me your feedback or questions [email protected] As an example let's consider the Linnaean classification for modern humans:- Domain: Eukarya (organisms which have cells with a membrane bound nucleus) Kingdom: Animalia(mobile heterotrophs made from eukaryotic cells having cell membrane but lacking cell wall.) Phylum: Chordata (animals with a notochord (a dorsal nerve cord ) - Subphylum: Vertebrata (having a back bone) Class: Mammalia (Warm Blooded (endothermic) vertebrates with hair and mammary glands to secrete milk for their young) - Cohort: Placentalia(possessing a placental to enable them to give birth to live young after a full internal gestation) Order: Primates (collar bone, eyes face forward, grasping hands with fingers) - Suborder: Anthropoidea(monkeys & apes as opposed to the lemurs & lorises) Family: Hominidae (great apes) Genus: Homo (humans and related extinct species) Species: Homo sapiens
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