Taxonomy

Take a moment to consider all of the important things going on in your life. You play a role at home as well as at school, and possibly even participate in different hobbies or sports. When you think about your role and responsibilities as a student, you may think of the work you complete at school each day. This work may be separated by subject, and then further broken down into classwork, homework, quizzes, labs, etc. This type of separation and organization is similar to the classification of organisms used in the field of biology. In this topic, you will learn how biologists use classification to organize and study living things.

Essential Question

• How do scientists organize living things to study how they live and function in the natural world?