8th Grade Life Science

Diversity Of Life

1. In classifying organisms, biologists consider details of internal and external structures to be more important than behavior or general appearance. Similarities among organisms can be used to infer the degree of relatedness among organisms. (AKSci - A.12)

Examples of What Students Should Be Able to Do:

• Create a dichotomous key classifying up to 10 objects and/or organisms.