THE NEED TO CLASSIFY LIVING THINGS
Variation and natural selection lead to evolution. Evolution, and the isolation of populations, leads to the development of new species. Each species has different characteristics, and some of these characteristics can be inherited by successive generations of this species. Observing these inherited characteristics allows scientists to put all living organisms into categories. The science of placing organisms into categories on the basis of their observable characteristics is called classification. There are so many different types of living organism (i.e an enormous variety of life) that the study of these organisms would
Be impossible without an ordered way of classifying them.
Variation and natural selection lead to evolution. Evolution, and the isolation of populations, leads to the development of new species. Each species has different characteristics, and some of these characteristics can be inherited by successive generations of this species. Observing these inherited characteristics allows scientists to put all living organisms into categories. The science of placing organisms into categories on the basis of their observable characteristics is called classification. There are so many different types of living organism (i.e an enormous variety of life) that the study of these organisms would
Be impossible without an ordered way of classifying them.
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