The Living World

Growth - Living grows from inside like you grow bones muscles, non-living grows from outside like mountain grows by adding mud from outside. Reproduction - Living makes similar babies asexual single parent or sexual two parents, non-living can't. Metabolism - Inside you thousands chemical reactions happening to make energy. Cellular - Living made of cells small building blocks. Consciousness - Living senses environment and responds, you feel hot cold, plants sense light and bend.

Hierarchy: Kingdom → Phylum/Division → Class → Order → Family → Genus → Species. Mnemonic: King Philip Came Over For Good Soup. Example Human: Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Chordata, Class Mammalia, Order Primates, Family Hominidae, Genus Homo, Species sapiens. Mango: Kingdom Plantae, Division Angiospermae, Class Dicot, Order Sapindales, Family Anacardiaceae, Genus Mangifera, Species indica. As you go down, common characters increase, similarity increases.

Herbarium - dried pressed plant specimens on paper sheet with label date place collector name, stored in big institutions Kew. Botanical Garden - living plants collection for reference, Kew London biggest, Indian Botanical Garden Howrah. Museum - preserved animals in jars with preservative. Zoological Park Zoo - living animals. Key - analytical tool to identify based on contrasting characters, you choose between two options and reach name. Flora - list of plants of area, Manual - with identification keys, Monograph - detailed study of one taxon.