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Classification of Animals

The document provides an overview of the classification of living things, dividing them into two main groups: animals and plants. Animals are further categorized into vertebrates and invertebrates, with vertebrates including amphibians, birds, fish, mammals, and reptiles, while invertebrates encompass eight groups such as molluscs and arthropods. Additionally, the document touches on fungi and viruses as distinct categories, highlighting their characteristics and roles in the ecosystem.

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Classification of Animals

The document provides an overview of the classification of living things, dividing them into two main groups: animals and plants. Animals are further categorized into vertebrates and invertebrates, with vertebrates including amphibians, birds, fish, mammals, and reptiles, while invertebrates encompass eight groups such as molluscs and arthropods. Additionally, the document touches on fungi and viruses as distinct categories, highlighting their characteristics and roles in the ecosystem.

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Classification

Grouping & Identifying


Living Things

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Why classify?
 Think of three examples where we
group things.

 Why do we group these things?


Classifying Living Things
 We put livings things into two large
groups:

Animals

Plants
Animals
 Animals are spilt into two major
groups:

Vertebrates

Invertebrates
Vertebrates
 These are animals with a backbone.
 There are five groups of vertebrates:

Amphibians
Birds
Fish
Mammals
Reptiles
Amphibians
 Have moist skin
 Lay jelly coated
eggs in water
 Lives on land and
water
Birds
 Have feathers and
hollow bones
 Lay hard shelled
eggs
 Warm blooded
Fish
 Have wet
scales
 Lays eggs in
water
 Lives in water
Mammals
 Have hair and
produce milk
 Give birth to live
offspring (no eggs)
 Warm blooded
Reptiles
 Have dry scales
 Lay leathery
shelled eggs
 Cold blooded
Summary of Vertebrates
Invertebrates
 These are animals without a backbone
 There are eight groups of invertebrates

 Molluscs
 Flatworms
 Annelids
 Roundworms
 Sponges
 Echinoderms
 Cnidarians
 Arthropods
Molluscs
 Crawl on a single
fleshy pad.
 Can have a shell
Flatworms

 Have flat worm


like bodies
Annelids
 Have round worm
like bodies
 Have bodies
divided into
segments
Roundworms
 Have long thin
round worm like
bodies
 Have bodies with
no segments
Sponges
 Have bodies
made of loosely
joined cells
Echinoderms
 Have bodies divided
into five parts
 Have spiny outer
covering
Cnidarians
 Have thin sack
like bodies
 Have tentacles
Arthropods
 Have lots of legs and segmented
bodies.
 There are four group of arthropods:

 Arachnids
Centipedes & Millipedes
Crustaceans
Insects
Arthropods - Arachnid
 Have four pairs of
legs.
 Have bodies
divided into two
sections
Arthropods – Centipedes
& Millipedes
 Have long thin
bodies and pairs of
legs on each of
their many body
sections
Arthropods - Crustacean
 Have five-seven
pairs of legs
 First pair often
used as pincers
 Bodies covered
in shell
Arthropods - Insects
 Have three pairs of
legs
 Bodies divided into
three sections
 Often have wings
Plants
Fungi
 Cell wall-chitin
 Heterotrophs
 Feed on dead materials
 Reproduce by making spores
 Cause some diseases:
Athlete’s foot, candidiasis
Viruses
 Without cell structure
 Between living and nonliving things
 Only reproduce
 Cause:
aids,flu,hepatitis
Chicken poxes.....
Sytematic categories
KEYS
 Spider keys  Numbered keys
Variation
 Between species  Within species
CAUSE OF VARIATION
 GENETICS

 ENVIRONMENTAL

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