Scientific Naming

Species – group of individual capable of producing fertile offspring

Genus – group of similar species

Example: specifically name humans

• domain – Eukarya → nucleus, organelles
• kingdom – Animalia → ingest food, multicellular, no cell wall
• phylum – Chordata → spinal chord
• class – Mammalia → nurse offspring
• order – Primates → high level of intelligence
• family – Hominidae → walk upright
• genus – Homo → human
• species – Homo sapiens → modern human