Question

How does the Classification system distinguish between organisms?

Answer 1

Answer:

By organising them into five major kingdoms and further dividing each kingdom into phyla (or divisions), classes, orders, families, genus, and species.

Explanation:

There are five kingdoms:

1. Monera: bacteria
2. Protista: amoeba, paramecium, euglena
3. Fungi: yeast, rhizopus
4. Plantae: flowering and non-flowering plants
5. Animalia: animals (vertebrates and invertebrates)

Organisms that share the most similar features are grouped into the same species. Species with similar features fall under the same genus. Several genus make up a family, several families make up an order, several orders make up a class, several classes make up a phylum (or division), and several phyla (or divisions) make up a kingdom.

Note: there are three domains (or superkingdoms): Archea, Bacteria, and Eukarya.