{"id":26967,"date":"2025-10-03T04:47:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T04:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vividscience.org\/?page_id=26967"},"modified":"2025-10-03T22:38:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T22:38:29","slug":"identification","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vividscience.org\/index.php\/online-envirobio\/data\/evidence\/identification\/","title":{"rendered":"3a4 Identification"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Identification Objectives<\/strong><\/h3> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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  • Explain why it is important to identify and classify organisms.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • Describe the work and contributions of Carl Linnaeus.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • List the three Domains of life, and the four Kingdoms in Domain Eukarya.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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    New species are still being discovered; identification is key in discerning between organisms.<\/h6> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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    Both of the species below are in the “wild carrot” family, but one is poisonous.\u00a0 Identification would have been critical to early humans to avoid potentially toxic or otherwise dangerous species.<\/h6> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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    Once trade routes were established, it was important that organisms be properly named.\u00a0 The problem was that many organisms were getting the same names, even though they actually had significant differences.<\/p>\n

    A “herring” fish could mean a species that was tasty or something that was inedible.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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    Since there are an estimated 10+ million species on Earth, simply identifying is not enough.\u00a0 There needs to be some way of discussing relationships between species and that is where classification comes in.<\/h6> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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    The “Father of Taxonomy,” the science of classification, is Carl Linnaeus.<\/p>\n

    Linnaeus, among many other things, developed a “flower clock” that could be used to indicate the time of day by which flower was open.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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    Carl Linnaeus also developed a scientific naming (nomenclature) system that could be used to identify an individual species and indicate how it related to other identified species.\u00a0 This system is still used with some modifications.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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    This video provides an overview of Linnaeus’ life and contributions.<\/strong><\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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