BIODIVERSITY CLASSIFICATION OF ORGANISMS
vertebrates invertebrates Animals without a backbone Animals with a backbone ANIMALS
VERTEBRATES MAMMALS REPTILES BIRDS FISH AMPHIBIANS
BIRDS land feather eggs with hardshell homeothermic internal lungs eagle and crow VERTEBRATES land/water fur give birth homeothermic internal lungs bat and lion MAMMALS
REPTILES land/water scales/hard skin eggs with a shell poikilotermic internal lungs tutle and snake AMPHIBIANS land/water moist skin egg poikilothermic external gills-young lungs-adult water-moist skin frog and newt ocean/sea slimy scales lay eggs poikilothermic external gills eel and shark FISH
INVERTEBRATES WITHOUT LEGS WITH LEGS sponge corals snail 1.WITHOUT SEGMENTED BODY ant butterfly cockroach 1.THREE PAIRS OF LEGS tapeworm leech earthworm 2.WITH SEGMENTED BODY spider prawn scorpion 2.MARE THAN THREE PAIRS OF LEGS
PLANT NONFLOWERING PLANTS FLOWERING PLANTS MOSS FERN CONIFER MONOCOTYLEDONS DICOTYLEDONS
reproduce by producing spores non-vascular MOSS reproduce by producing spores vascular FERN reproduce by vascular CONIFER bearing cones NON-FLOWERING PLANTS
one fibrous root parallel veins non-woody stem paddy and maize plant MONOCOTYLEDONS two cotyledons tap root network-like veins woody stem tomato and lotus plant DICOTYLEDONS MoP FiN DiN TaW FLOWERING PLANTS