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Classification

The document discusses the classification of living things. It focuses on the animal kingdom, which includes vertebrates that have bones and backbones and invertebrates that do not. Invertebrates are further divided into groups including jellyfish, worms, arthropods, molluscs, and echinoderms. Arthropods are then broken down into myriapods, crustaceans, arachnids, and insects.

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Classification

The document discusses the classification of living things. It focuses on the animal kingdom, which includes vertebrates that have bones and backbones and invertebrates that do not. Invertebrates are further divided into groups including jellyfish, worms, arthropods, molluscs, and echinoderms. Arthropods are then broken down into myriapods, crustaceans, arachnids, and insects.

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Classification

• To classify is to group things according to their shared


characteristics.
• Living things are put into groups so that they can be
easily studied
• The largest group in the classification system is the
kingdom.
• Each kingdom has a large number of organisms which
have a few major common features.
• The 5 kingdoms are Plants, animals, fungi, bacteria and
protoctista
The animal kingdom
• They cannot make their own food thus they
eat plants and other animals
• Their bodies do not contain cellulose and
chlorophyll the green colour.
• They move about from one place to the other.
• They are divided into 2 major groups the
vertebrates and the invertebrates
• Vertebrates have bones and a back bone while
invertebrates have no bones nor back bone.
• Vertebrates have an inside skeleton which is
missing in invertebrates.
The invertebrates
• Divided into jellyfish, flatworms, annelid
worm, nematode worms, arthropod, molluscs
and echinoderms.
Nematodes
• Have thin cylindrical bodies not divided into
segments
Annelids
• These are the true worms
• Have long segmented cylindrical bodies
• Soft bodies
Arthropods
• Arthropods have jointed legs
• They have an exoskeleton (skeleton outside
their bodies)
• Divided into four groups the myriapods,
crustaceans, arachnids and the insects
Myriapods
• Have one pair of antennae
• Have long cylindrical flat bodies
• Have many legs
• Eg centipedes and millipedes
Crustaceans
• Have 2 pairs of antennae
• Eg lobster, crabs, crayfish etc
Arachnids
• Also known as the spiders
• Do not have antennae or wings
• Have 4 pairs of legs
• Eg ticks, spiders, mites and scorpions
Insects
• Have 1 pair of antennae, 3 pairs of legs and up
to 2 pairs of wings
• Body divided into 3 parts head, thorax and
abdomen
Molluscs
• They have soft bodies
• Most have a shell to protect their bodies
• Eg snails and slugs

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