LEVELS OF CLASSIFICATION NOTES

1. List the 7 Levels of Classification from largest to smallest.
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.
2. What are the 3 Domains?

Archae, Bacteria & Eukarya
3. What are the 5 Kingdoms? Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista & Bacteria.
4. What is a Branching Diagram? -Is a diagram which shows shared derived characteristics.
- Each characteristic on the diagram is shared by only the animals above it.
- The characteristics found higher on the diagram evolved more recently than the characteristics below them.
- More recent organisms are at the ends of branches high on the diagram.