Okay, So an animal has a breed. But the animal has a specific name other than what you decide to call it. What is the word for the specific name? I have no clue and need to know.
~>Jiskuha
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 Jul 26 2005, 11:05 am
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No I mean... Say I see a bird, I decide to call it a doo doo head but its real classified name is a bird. I'm looking for the word that is classified name but not in those exact words.
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EGUY wrote:
Class. I think it's either genus or species if | |
Prodigal Squirrel wrote:
That can also be called it's kingdom, I believe... *thinks* maybe I'm wrong. 8? From most general to most specific, the scientic classification of living stuff: kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species. What Jiskuha probably wants is the genus, the species, or both. Binomial nomenclature, or the scientific name of a species, is formed by the combination of the genus, and the species. Ex: Roadrunnerus-fastius. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_nomenclature | |
No, and not only because birds aren't mammals.
There are five animal kingdoms: Animalia - animals Plantae - plants Protista - protists (single celled organisms) Fungi - mushrooms, etc. Monera - bacteria After this, it branches off into phylums. All animals with backbones are in the kingdom Animalia and the phylum Chordata. Next are classes. Mammals go into Mammalia and birds into Aves. Order is the next most specific grouping. Dogs and cats, for example, are in the order Carnivora. Now we have genus. This is the first part of a scientific name. Cats fit into the genus Felis. Finally is species, the most specific of the classifications and the second part of the scientific name. House cats are of the species Domesticus. So, for example, a cat's scientific classification would be: Animalia Chordata Mammalia Carnivora Felis Domesticus Felis Domesticus In grade school, I was taught to memorize them with a simple sentence - "King Phillip came over for good soup." | |
Jiskuha wrote:
Okay so: Sigh, no. Go learn grade 9 science. :P | |
Jon88 wrote:
Sigh, no. Go learn grade 9 science. :P Hey, My school never taught me this stuff. ~>Jiskuha | |
Assuming you made it all the way through high school, I can assure you that they did. :P Even if you haven't yet, I'm sure you were introduced to the concept in late elementary (or middle) school, and it was touched again in junior high.
The fact that most people don't remember learning this stuff is a consequence of the modern approach to learning, which is, teach kids how to memorize what they need to know to get a passing score on the next test, and then move onto what they need to memorize for the test after that. | |
Hedgemistress wrote:
Assuming you made it all the way through high school, I can assure you that they did. :P Even if you haven't yet, I'm sure you were introduced to the concept in late elementary (or middle) school, and it was touched again in junior high. I did triple science for my GCSE course in England. I'm 16, in year 11. I dunno what that equates to in America. I assure you that they never taught us about the classification of living creatures, nor did it come up in our exams. *edit* Thinking about it, I guess we learn different stuff from America. In Geography, a good deal was about how polluting and dangerous America was to the environment. :P You think they're training us up for the eventual World War III and Fall of | |
Actually, it's a required for the first year of highschool (American or British), they just usually only spend a few days on it, so it doesn't stick much.
Also from your age I'd expect 'year 11' to be just about the same here as there, maybe one year back. | |
Ex:
Man-o-war = Physalia physalia