What are the taxonomic categories?
Resource overview
KS 4
Invite your pupils to explore the science of naming, describing and classifying organisms.
Topics covered
evolution and adaptation, conservation and sustainabilityHow to use this resource
- Display the resource on your whiteboard for a whole class approach or print for pupils to read independently
Background
How are the world’s plants and fungi related to each other and how have they evolved over time? Linnaeus’s original system of classification grouped organisms by physical characteristics. Since then, advances in technology mean that we can now classify plants by their DNA sequences.
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