Species
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A species is any kind of organism, a class of individuals that have some common characteristics or qualities.
This term is a basic unit of biological classification. All animals or plants that are the same kind belong to the same species.
Wolves (Canis lupus) are one species. Humans are another species.
- For example: crows and ravens are similar but not the same, so they are together in a bigger group called a "genus."
- Then there is a "family" (like the crow family, which includes crows and ravens as well as jays and magpies).
- Then, an "order" which adds songbirds to the group.
- The next group is "class" - all birds are in the same class.
- After that is the "phylum", such as vertebrates, which is all animals with backbones.
- Last of all is "kingdom", like the animal kingdom.