Question

Describe the biological classification system designed by carlos linnaeus, particularly how it works. List all the taxonomic levels in order from the broadest to the narrowest that are needed to classify all the organisms on earth today.

Answer 1

In the 18th century, Carl Linnaeus published a system for classifying living things, which has been developed into the modern classification system, species, genus, family, order, class, phylum, Kingdome.

1. Kingdom- when Linnaeus first described   his system ,he named only two kingdom- Animal and plants. Today scientists think there at least five kingdom- Animal, plants , fungi

2. Phylum- below the kingdom is the phylum within the animal kingdom, major phyla includes chordata ,arthropoda Mollusca , phyla   has been reorganized since the  original work by Linnaeus  

3. Class

4. Order

5. Family

6. Genus and sepecies