Thursday, February 23, 2012
Measuring Biotic Components of an Ecosystem
Today in class we learned about the importance of measuring biotic (living organisms) in an ecosystem. We investigated the science of taxonomy-classification of organisms and discussed how each organism is named using bionomial nomenclature- 2 names in latin that are of the organisms genus and species. For more information on taxonomy- I found this great website produced by Michigan State University. We also looked at the Red-Cheeked Cordon Bleu, a songbird that lives right here on our campus- here is the powerpoint so you can see how it got it's classification:
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