Chapter 17: Organizing Life’s Diversity
Chapter 17 Outline (word doc).
Section 17.1 Resources:
- Section Launcher movies on “Aristotle’s Classification System.”
Chapter Resources:
- “Organizing Life’s Diversity” review.
- “Organizing Life’s Diversity” wordsearch puzzle (word doc).
- “Classification” drag and drop game.
Links to go further:
- How to use a dichotomous key: http://students.ed.qut.edu.au/n2364379/mdb377/dichotomouskey.html
- Learning to use a dichotomous key: http://www.necc.mass.edu/mrvis/mr3_14/start.htm#p20
- A mnemonic for remembering the order of classification groups: http://vilenski.org/science/safari/classifyall/classify_all.html
- Good pictoral of six kingdoms: http://www.ric.edu/faculty/ptiskus/Six_Kingdoms/Index.htm
- The three domains and six kingdoms of life: http://www.geo.arizona.edu/geo3xx/geo308/DiversityOfLifeLectureNotes2005.pdf
- The phylogenetic relationships of major groups: http://www.bookrags.com/research/phylogenetic-relationships-of-major-ansc-04/
- Biography of Carl Linnaeus: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/linnaeus.html
- An introduction to taxonomy with crossword puzzles: http://anthro.palomar.edu/animal/
- The Linnean System of classification: http://www.palaeos.com/Systematics/Linnean/Linnean.htm