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Lesson: Chapter 13 — The Living World

13.1. Why we classify living things 2 of 8

Question 2

What is the classification of organisms?

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Dividing living things into groups by the characteristics they share. What it rests on is a characteristic the members of a group have in common.

Naming is not classification — that is nomenclature, the subject of section 13.2. The two are close but they are not the same job.

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