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| Taxonomy is the naming and organizing of living things. |
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| Early efforts to classify "life", divided everything into what two categories? |
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| Either plants or animals. |
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| In early classifying systems, animals were classified as one of what three things? |
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| Animals were either land, air or water dwellers. |
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| How were plants originally classified? |
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| Plants were classified as having either soft stems, several woody stems or a single woody stem. |
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| What is binomial nomenclature? |
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| In binomial nomenclature, each species is assigned a two-part scientific name. |
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| How are living things classified? |
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| Kingdom, phylum or division, class, order, family, genus, species |
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