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| classification (n) | a system of organizing information about living things |
| kingdom (n) | 1 of the 5 large groups used to classify living things |
| Kingdom Plantae | 1 of the large groups of organisms; they make their own food by photosynthesis |
| Kingdom Animalia | 1 of the large groups of organisms; they can usually move around, and they eat plants or other animals for food |
| Kingdom Fungi | 1 of the large groups of organisms; plant-like organisms that lack chlorophyll and cannot photosynthesize |
| Kingdom Monera | 1 of the large groups of organisms; includes microscopic organisms; do not have a nucleus in their cells |
| Kingdom Protista | 1 of the large groups of organisms which includes single-celled organisms; share features with both plants and animals |
| Carl Linnaeus * | the father of modern taxonomy’; developed the system of classification |
| taxonomy* (n) | the science of classifying living things |
| binomial nomenclature* (n) | the formal system of naming species; each name has 2 parts using the Latin language |
