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==Basis for biological classification==

==Basis for biological classification==

The basis for the biological classification scheme is similarity of morphology (shape) and phylogeny (evolutionary history)..<ref name=ch02r2>Curtis, Helen, 1983, Biology, 4th Ed.: New York, Worth Publishing, Inc., 1159 p.</ref> In addition, the processes that led to these similarities are also used in biological classification. For example, one of the major differences between plants and animals is that animals are mobile and can search for food, whereas plants are fixed or rooted and rely on food to be brought to them<ref name=ch02r2 />

The basis for the biological classification scheme is similarity of morphology (shape) and phylogeny (evolutionary history).<ref name=ch02r2>Curtis, H., 1983, Biology, 4th Ed.: New York, Worth Publishing, Inc., 1159 p.</ref> In addition, the processes that led to these similarities are also used in biological classification. For example, one of the major differences between plants and animals is that animals are mobile and can search for food, whereas plants are fixed or rooted and rely on food to be brought to them.<ref name=ch02r2 />

==Ranking classes of organisms==

==Ranking classes of organisms==

The biological classification scheme places organisms in seven ranked levels, going from general to specific:

The biological classification scheme places organisms in seven ranked levels, going from general to specific:

* Kingdom

1. Kingdom

 

:2. Phylum

<list-item><label>2.</label>Phylum

::3. Class

 

:::4. Order

<list-item><label>3.</label>Class

::::5. Family

 

:::::6. Genus

<list-item><label>4.</label>Order

::::::7. Species

 

<list-item><label>5.</label>Family

 

<list-item><label>6.</label>Genus

 

<list-item><label>7.</label>Species</list-item></list-item></list-item></list-item></list-item></list-item>

The species represents one certain type of organism, which, by definition, cannot interbreed with an organism of a different species. The largest or most general grouping is at the kingdom level, which Aristotle originally used to separate plants (plant kingdom) and animals (animal kingdom). Interestingly, Aristotle also identified a third kingdom—the mineral kingdom—in which hydrocarbon traps presumably belong.

The species represents one certain type of organism, which, by definition, cannot interbreed with an organism of a different species. The largest or most general grouping is at the kingdom level, which Aristotle originally used to separate plants (plant kingdom) and animals (animal kingdom). Interestingly, Aristotle also identified a third kingdom—the mineral kingdom—in which hydrocarbon traps presumably belong.

==See also==

==See also==

* [[Classification philosophy]]

* [[Classification philosophy]]

* [[What is a trap?]]

* [[Trap]]

* [[Classifying traps]]

* [[Classifying traps]]

* [[Trap systems: structural, stratigraphic, and fluidic]]

* [[Trap systems: structural, stratigraphic, and fluidic]]

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