Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Answer these 3 questions using the seven Kingdom classifications: a) organism that is beneficial to humans b) two organisms that are harmful to...

The 7 kingdom classification of organisms classifies every organism at 7 different levels, including:


  1. Kingdom

  2. Phylum

  3. Class

  4. Order

  5. Family

  6. Genus

  7. Species

In such a classification system, each organism is part of a much, much larger domain (at the top of the classification) and is further sub-classified at each level of this classification system, till we end up with a very particular organism.


For example, dogs are beneficial to human beings and can be classified according to this system as:


Kingdom: Animalis


Phylum: Chordata


Class: Mammalia


Order: Carnivora


Family: Canidae


Genus: Canis


Species: lupus


Here, dogs are part of a kingdom- animalia (along with all the other animals). They are then differentiated at each level of this classification system, till we have only dogs as the species.


A microorganism that is harmful to human beings, Escherichia coli O157:H7 can be similarly classified as:


Kingdom: Bacteria


Phylum: Proteobacteria


Class: Gamma Proteobacteria


Order: Enterobacteriales


Family: Enterobacteriaceae


Genus: Escherichia


Species: Escherichia coli O157:H7


One can similarly find and classify useful as well as harmful organisms. 


Hope this helps.

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