This document discusses diversity in living organisms and covers classification, biodiversity, evolution, and the relationship between classification and evolution. It introduces the concept of classification, which groups organisms based on common features, and biodiversity, which refers to the variety of life in a particular environment. Evolution is described as changes in organism characteristics over time due to environmental changes that allow organisms to survive. The hierarchy of classification is explained, with the five kingdoms of life - Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia - that are further divided into phylum, class, order, genus, and species.

2. CHAPTER 3
DIVERSITY IN LIVING ORGANISMS
CHAPTER 3
DIVERSITY IN LIVING
ORGANISMS

3. TOPIC
 CLASSIFICATION
 BIODIVERSITY
 EVOLUTION
 RELATION BETWEEN CLASSIFICATION AND
EVOLUTION
 HIERARCHY OF CLASSIFICATION

4. CLASSIFICATION
 CLASSIFICATION : Grouping
things together on the basis of
certain common features.
 Classification is based on
Similar and Dissimilar
Characteristics
 Help us to study about living
organisms in a better way

5. BIODIVERSITY
 Concept : Different varieties of living
organisms present in a particular area is
called Biodiversity.
 They all share a common environment.
 All are depending on one another for many
things.
 The warm and humid tropical regions of the
earth, between the tropic of Cancer and the
tropic of Capricorn, are rich in diversity of
plant and animal life. This is called the region
of mega diversity

7. EVOLUTION
 Charles Darwin first described this
idea of evolution in 1859 in his book,
The Origin of Species.
 Due to the change in the
environment there occurs change in
the characteristics of living
organisms over a period of time.
 Evolution leads living organisms to
survive in the new environment.

8. EVOLUTION

9. RELATION BETWEEN
CLASSIFICATION AND EVOLUTION

10. THE HIERARCHY OF
CLASSIFICATION
 Hierarchy : All living organisms are
grouped into groups and subgroups.
 There are mainly 5 kingdoms of
organisms - WHITTAKER
 MONERA
 PROTISTA
 FUNGI
 PLANTAE
 ANIMALIA

11. SUB-GROUPS
Each kingdom is again
divided into:
 PHYLUM
 CLASS
 ORDER
 GENUS
 SPECIES