CLASSIFICATION

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CLASSIFICATION AND EVOLUTION Part 1
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The Five Kingdoms
What characteristics are shared by all living
things?
Eukaryotes
Prokaryotes
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Three Domains An alternative classification
system
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ANIMALS
What are their shared characteristics?
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MAMMALS
What are their shared characteristics?
MONOTREMES (platypus, echidnas) MARSUPIALS (
opossums, kangaroos) PLACENTAL MAMMALS Edentata
(anteaters, aramadillos) Pholidata
(pangolins) Lagomorpha (rabbits) Rodentia
(mice,gophers) Macroscelidea (elephant
shrews) Primates (monkeys, humans) Scandentia
(tree shrews) Chiroptera (bats) Dermoptera
(colugos)
Insectivora (shrews, moles) Carnivora (dogs,
cats) Artiodactyla (deer hippos) Cetacea (whales,
dolphins) Tubulidentata (aardvark) Perissodactyla
(horses, rhinos) Hyracoidea (manatees, sea
cows) Proboscidea (elephants)
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MAMMALS - Rodentia
What are their shared characteristics?
Rodent teeth
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MAMMALS - Carnivora
What are their shared characteristics?
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MAMMALS - Artiodactyls
What are their shared characteristics?
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MAMMALS - Cetacea
What are their shared characteristics?
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MAMMALS - Primates
What are their shared characteristics?
Bonobo
Black Lemur
Rhesus Monkey
Gorilla
Orangutan
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CLASSIFICATION AND EVOLUTION Part 2
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Primate Classification
PRIMATES
Prosimians
Anthropoids
Hominoids
New-world Monkeys
Old-world Monkeys
Pongids (Orangutans)
Hominids (Humans, Great Apes)
Hylobatids (Gibbons)
Note Primate classification is undergoing rapid
change. This is a simplified version of one of
several taxonomies.
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PRIMATES Prosimians
What are their shared characteristics?
Loris
Loris
Ring-tailed lemurs
Slow Loris
Loris
Pottos
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PRIMATES New-world Monkeys
What are their shared characteristics?
Howler Monkey
Spider Monkey
Pigmy marmoset
Squirrel Monkey
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PRIMATES Old-world Monkeys
What are their shared characteristics?
Baboon
Macaque
Vervet Monkey
Mandrill
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PRIMATES Gibbons (Hylobatidae)
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PRIMATES Orangutans (Pongidae)
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PRIMATES - Hominids
What are their shared characteristics?
Gorilla
Chimpanzee
Humans
Orangutans
Bonobos
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PRIMATES - Hominids
GORILLINS AND PANINS
HOMININS (Humans)
What are their shared characteristics?
What are their shared characteristics?
Bonobo
Gorilla
Chimpanzee
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PRIMATES - Hominids
GORILLINS AND PANINS
HOMININS (Humans)
What are their shared characteristics?
What are their shared characteristics?
Chimpanzee
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PRIMATES - Hominids
GORILLINS AND PANINS
HOMININS (Humans)
What are their shared characteristics?
What are their shared characteristics?
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PRIMATES - Hominids
GORILLINS AND PANINS
HOMININS (Humans)
What are their shared characteristics?
What are their shared characteristics?
Gorilla
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PRIMATES - Hominids
GORILLINS AND PANINS
HOMININS (Humans)
What are their shared characteristics?
What are their shared characteristics?
Chimpanzee
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PRIMATES - Hominids
GORILLINS AND PANINS
HOMININS (Humans)
What are their shared characteristics?
What are their shared characteristics?
Chimpanzee
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PRIMATES - Hominids
GORILLINS AND PANINS
HOMININS (Humans)
What are their shared characteristics?
What are their shared characteristics?
Chimpanzee
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PRIMATES - Hominids
GORILLINS AND PANINS
HOMININS (Humans)
What are their shared characteristics?
What are their shared characteristics?
Chimpanzee
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PRIMATES - Hominids
GORILLINS AND PANINS
HOMININS (Humans)
What are their shared characteristics?
What are their shared characteristics?
Chimpanzee
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PRIMATES - Hominids
GORILLINS AND PANINS
HOMININS (Humans)
What are their shared characteristics?
What are their shared characteristics?
Chimpanzee
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This lesson and assessment revised and updated
from the Delaware State Science Curriculum, SEPUP
Biology, Science and Global Issues, and Indiana
University ENSI (Evolution and the Nature of
Science Institutes) on the web
http//www.indiana.edu/ensiweb/evol.fs.html by
Christine M. Anderson for Middletown High
School, 2013.