Taxonomy

How and why do we classify things

Lets visit some sites to answer this question

 

http://anthro.palomar.edu/animal/animal_1.htm

 

https://socratic.org/questions/why-is-classification-important-in-biology

 

http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/thezone/animals/animalid/classify.htm

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqxomJIBGcY

Link for Research it Station

Classifying Life

Link for Watch it Station: Domains and Kingdoms of Life – watch it station

Archaebacteria – watch and learn about them

How are living things are classify into groups? Interactive Activity

 

Tree of Life

Picture

What is a cladogram

http://study.com/academy/lesson/cladogram-definition-examples.html

Higher level interpretation from Yale

http://peabody.yale.edu/exhibits/what-cladogram

Videos

From Utah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aEIvwqoIhI

 

Bozeman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouZ9zEkxGWg

 

Understanding a phylogenetic tree

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVW8iIEfiZI&t=17s

The world’s  biodiversity is declining as an impossible fast pace.

The animals and plants on the planet are in trouble.

 

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THdVaklhtG4?rel=0]

Local retired billionaire, M. Audain announces that he will set up a fund of 0.5 million dollars to study how to protect grizzly bears in BC.

grizzly-bears

Mr. Audain claims that he is starting this initiative because the BC Government is not doing enough to protect the bears.  Mr. Audain says that he regrets not getting involved in grizzly bear conservation years ago.