Year 10 Textbook

St. Mary’s College Science Department
Year 10 Science
Next you are going to learn about how scientists classify living things…
First of all can you answer this…
What do the ox-eye daisy, the dog daisy and the marguerite have in
common?
The answer is… that they are all the
exact same plant!
The name of this plant is different
in different areas.
Can you imagine how this could be
confusing.
very
Imagine if dogs were known by a different name in other places – how
confusing would that be?
Luckily scientists do not normally use the ‘common’ names for living
things.
Instead they use a special system of naming called the ‘binomial system’.
This system gives everything 2 names – the first is called its ‘genus’ and
the second name is called its ‘species’.
Let’s look at an example… how we classify the brown bear…
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