Sunday, March 23, 2008

Classifing Organisms

The real question here is::How do we know if scientists will or will not be able to classify all organisms?" In the article we read it said that scientist will try to classify all organisms in 25 years...a huh...i would most definitly want to see that happen...but unfourtunatly that wont happen...like i said before, most organisms are going extinct. Scientists are going WAY ahead of themselves. Even though they have a good advancment in technology it doesnt mean they WILL be able to classify ALL organisms. But you never know, it could (with a greater advancement in technology) or it could not. The point is that no body really does know if scientist will classify all organisms because we dont know what will happen in the future. But scientists are trying to discover and classify all organisms as fast as they can.

Another Question is:: Why do we classify organisms?
There is such a diversity of life on Earth that scientists developed a system that names living things and organizes them into groups. You all might already know this. But this is a reminder...if you get stuck with notes or something:: The groups are; Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species. And the naming system that gives humans first and last names is called binomial nomenclature. The point here is that we classify organisms because there is too many of them. Like say if you have a bunch of different papers...homework, tests, notes, and fliers...they are all in one folder...then all of a sudden u cant find your homework...what would you do? Organize them right? That way you know where everyhing is...The same with organizing organisms. There is sooo many different organisms you have to classify them, so you know where it fits in your folder.haha. Thats why we classify organisms.

Friday, March 21, 2008

The rush to classify organisms

The importance of rushing to classify all the organisms is because most species are going extinct. If they go extinct then there will be a very slim chance that scientists will not be able to classify them because...well...organisms won't be around for scientists to classify them.