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- Mrs. EltonBio 2
- 1) Aristotle384-322 BCEGreek Philosopher
- 2) Created one of the first systems of classification of animals into Genera and Species based on physical characteristics which remained for many centuries.
- 3) Aristotle was a student of Plato although he did not always agree with his teacher. He developed the first complex system of classification.
- 2) Although there have been several modern alterations to Linnaeus' original system, the basis of Linnaean taxonomy has allowed biologists to group related species into genealogical trees, which represent the evolutionary lineage of modern organisms from common ancestors.
- 3) His concept of a natural classification was Aristotelian; i.e., it was based on Aristotle’s idea of the essential features of living things and on his logic.
- 1) Carrolus Linneasus1707-1778The Father of TaxonomySweden
- Woese discovered that there were actually three primary lineages. Within what had previously been called prokaryotes, there exist two distinct groups of organisms no more related to one another than they were to eukaryotes.
- Carl Woese1928-2012United States of America
- The three-domains of Carl Woese’s Classification system include archaea, bacteria, eukaryote, and six kingdoms are Archaebacteria (ancient bacteria), Eubacteria (true bacteria), Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia.
- In the 1960s, American biologist Robert Whittaker proposed a classification system based on five kingdoms: Monera (prokaryotes), Protista (chiefly protozoa and algae), Fungi (molds, yeasts, and mushrooms), Plantae (plants), and Animalia (animals).
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