Zeraph

I'm wondering if someone can help me properly order and make sense of all this.
I've learned about all this stuff at one time or another but its all become a big jumble in my head. I want to know the scientific break down of all the classifications of life.

what I mean is:


* Amphibians
* Birds
* Fishes
* Invertebrates
* Mammals
* Reptiles
Is the "animal kingdom", ya? Is there a technical term for it?

Then there's like types of cells, I think:
archaea, eukarya, and bacteria

And I've also seen em divided like this in regards to kingdom:
kingdom archae.. kingdom plantae..kingdom eubacteria, kingdom protista, kingdom fungi, and kingdom animalia

Then there's the ranks: kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, family
I think?

Where does species fit in there?

Are viruses officially included as life?


Thanks

Baraka_Guru

You're speaking of scientific taxonomy, or, more specifically, biological classification.

This is the hierarchy:

• Life
• Domain
• Kingdom
• Phylum
• Class
• Order
• Family
• Genus
• Species

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Zeraph

would breed be after species or is that unofficial?

and what do you think about viruses?

Baraka_Guru

Well, as an example, domesticated dogs share an ancestry with gray wolves. The gray wolf is the species Canis lupus. However, the domestic dog would be the subspecies Canis lupus familiaris. The breeds within that classification would simply be grouped together under it.

And viruses are classified the same way as other biological entities, right down to the species. For example, the influenza virus is from the family Orthomyxoviridae. Then you get the genus Influenzavirus A, species Influenza A virus, and ultimately a subspecies such as N1H1.

__________________
Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot