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What is Zoology? Zoology is the study of animal life. It covers areas ranging from the structure of organisms to the subcellular unit of life. Some zoologists are interested in the biology of particular groups of animals. Others are concerned with the structure and function of animal bodies. Still others study how new animals are formed and how their characteristics are passed on from one generation to another. Zoologists study the interactions of animals with one another and their environments, and the significance of the behavior of animals. Zoology is both descriptive and analytical. It can be approached either as a basic science or as an applied science. A worker in basic zoology is interested in knowledge of animals for its own sake without consideration of the direct application of the information gained. In contrast, workers in applied zoology are interested in information which will directly benefit humans; medicine is an example. |
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How do I find out the species, genus, family, order, class, phylum (division), and kingdom of an animal? How do I find out the species, genus, family, order, class, phylum(division), and kingdom of an animal? |
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How are animals classified? What is the kingdom classification of animals? What types of animals should you focus on? Animals for human food as per culture and religion. What animals are utilized for human food as per culture and religion? Classifying Animals The inventor of modern scientific classification was Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) a Swedish botanist who classified and described more than 4,400 species of animals and 7,700 species of plants. There are billions of different kinds of living things (or organisms) on earth. To help study them, biologists have devised ways of naming and classifying them according to their similarities and differences. The system most scientists use puts each living thing into seven groups (or taxons), organized from most general to most specific. Therefore, each species belongs to a genus, each genus belongs to a family, each family belongs to an order, etc. From largest to smallest, these groups are: * Kingdom * Phylum * Class * Order * Family * Genus * Species Kingdoms are huge groups, encompassing millions of kinds of organisms each. All animals are in one kingdom (called Kingdom Animalia); all plants are in another (Kingdom Plantae). In the most widely-used system, there are five kingdoms, containing animals, plants, fungi, prokaryotes, and protoctists (the last two are different sorts of one-celled organisms). Other systems have six or more kingdoms. Species are the smallest groups. A species consists of all the animals of the same type, who are able to breed and produce young of the same kind. For example, while any two great white sharks are in the same species, as are any two makos, great whites and makos are in different species (since they can't interbreed). A Sample Classification The lion belongs to the following groups: * Kingdom Animalia (includes all animals) * Phylum Chordata (includes all vertebrate animals, as well as some other more primitive ones) * Class Mammalia (includes all mammals) * Order Carnivora (includes carnivorous mammals, from bears to raccoons to harbor seals) * Family Felidae (includes all cats) * Genus Panthera (includes the great roaring cats: lions, tigers, jaguars, and leopards) * Species leo (lions!) |