animal classification

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Do you know how are the animals divided? Do you know how many kinds of animals are there?
Not every animals are the same kinds, there are over millions of organisms on top the sky, under the ocean, and on the ground, there can be animals on top of the Horizon one million km and down one million km. So scientist want to make it more easier, they group the animals into thousands of group, and they also make a chart, so that if there are a new animals , then they can know what kind of animal it can be in, or what animals evolve to it.
I am going to talk about who start classifying animals, how they classify animals, what is the history of classifying how are they appeared9, and some examples of the animals classification how do they look like.

I. How is Biological taxonomy appeared?
Early time, Taxonomy has been called "the world's oldest profession." and naming and classifying our surroundings has likely been taking place as long as mankind has been able to communicate. It’s really important in the past, because they can know what animals are poisonous to not get hurts or not eating them.
The first to begin classifying all of the living things is Aristotle, Greece, 384-322 BC. The terms that he found out "invertebrates" and "vertebrates “ are still commonly using now. Aristotle’s student Theophrastus carries Aristotle thought, he wrote a classification of 480 plants call “ Historia Plantarum.” Again, several plant groups currently still recognized can be traced back to Theophrastus, such as Cornus, Crocus, and Narcissus. The next major turn-of-the-millennia era taxonomist came in the form of Pliny the Elder, Rome, 23-79 AD. His elaborate 160-volume work Naturalis Historia described many plants, and even gave many of them ...

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Order Carnivora ( carnivorous mammals, from bears to raccoons to harbor seals )
Family Felidae ( all cats )
Genus Panthera ( roaring cats: lions, tigers, jaguars, and leopards )
Species leo ( lions )
V. Summary
Animals classification is very important, we have to have this in our world. In the past, people classify it because of the poisonous, even now we don’t want to get poisonous, so it’s really thankful that they thought about this. After 1500 years, scientist starts to get more deep in the animals classification, people start to know about animals, knows which is dangerous, which is poisonous, which one can’t be close to it, and scientist can know more about natural by animals classification. But there are more than millions kind of animals in the world, maybe most of the animals are still not been classify yet, scientist are still searching for them.

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