1. Plant
Classification
How do we classify?
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2. What is chocolate sauce?
It is a food
It is a dessert
It is a liquid
It is a thick liquid
Caramel
It is chocolate sauce!
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3. There are seven main levels of
classification
• Kingdom
• Phylum
• Class
• Order
• Family
• Genus
• Species
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4. Let’s Classify Strawberries!
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5. Kingdom: Plantae
• They are plants!
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6. Phylum: Angiosperms
• Because they have flowers (tomatoes and
peppers do too)
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7. Class: Magnoliopsida
• Because of the leaves on the young plants
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8. Order: Rosales
• Because of the petals on the flowers
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9. Family: Rosaceae
• Because of their flowers and fruit
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10. Genus: Fragaria
• Fragaria means strawberry!
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11. Species: there are a lot!
• There are many species of strawberries!
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