Page 133 - The Error of the Evolution of Species

Harun Yahya
(Adnan Oktar)

claims regarding speciation, let us first provide some gener-

al information about biological classification.

Classification of Living Creatures

Try writing down the names of all the animals, plants

and micro-organisms you have ever encountered or heard
of. No matter how long your list, it will represent only a
very small fraction of the living species on Earth. Suppose
that others from different countries have also prepared such
a list. A more comprehensive list may emerge when these
are all combined together. But this time, the list will become
confused because of some of the same life forms will be re-

ferred to by different names, or different ones by the same
name.
To overcome these difficulties, biologists give every
plant and animal a scientific name, such that all organisms
are described according to a binomial classification system.
The first word is generally Latin—a practice left over from
the days when Latin was an international language. For ex-
ample, the dogs you see every day are Latin-named Canis
familiaris, and cats are Felis catus.

The animal kingdom contains more than a million described
species, making it the largest of the kingdoms.

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