Help ASAP 100 POINTS AND BRAINLEST IF CORRECT! Classification Activity Worksheet Instructions: Read each myth (untruth). Reword it to make a factual statement. Then, give two to three reasons why the myth is untrue. Use complete sentences and support your answer with evidence, using your own words.

For example:
Myth: A dead organism is the same as a nonliving thing in science.
Fact: A dead organism is not the same as a nonliving thing in science.
Evidence: (You can find evidence in Lesson 5.03. Explain why this evidence supports the fact statement.)

Myth: A dead organism is the same as a nonliving thing in science.
Fact:
Evidence:

Myth: The Linnaeus system of classification will always stay the same.
Fact:
Evidence:

Myth: Tigers and goldfish are not related.
Fact:
Evidence:

Myth: An organism's kingdom only describes physical characteristics.
Fact:
Evidence:

Myth: Mammals and plants don't belong in the same domain.
Fact:
Evidence:

Your Turn
Come up with another myth about the classification of organisms. Then, give two to three reasons why the myth is untrue. Use complete sentences and support your answer with evidence, using your own words.

Your myth:
Fact:
Evidence:

As per questions,

• Myth: A dead organism is the same as a non-living thing in science.

Fact: A dead organism is not the same as a non-living thing in science.

Evidence: A dead organism means that it was once alive, whereas a non-living thing has never been alive.

• Myth: The Linnaeus system of classification will always stay the same.

Fact: The Linnaeus system of classification will pass on .

Evidence: Its new species are being found. Also, Carl Linnaeus came up with a sequential classification of living organism under different taxons namely Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus and species.

• Myth: Tigers and goldfish are not related.

Fact: Tigers and goldfish are related

Evidence: They fall into the same category of vertebrates, which means that both creatures have spines, and internal bone structure.

• Myth: An organism's kingdom only describes physical characteristics.

Fact: An organism's kingdom not only describes physical characteristics.

Evidence: This is evident by that both plant and animal kingdom are classified on the basis of photosynthetic ability. Besides physical characteristics, it also describes its mode of nutrition and food characteristics.

• Myth: Mammals and plants don't belong in the same domain.

Fact: Mammals and plants belong in the same domain.

Evidence: Plants have cells, nucleus, breathing and respiratory capabilities just like mammals.

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Your myth: Animals are not related to humans.

Fact: Animals are indirectly related to humans.

Evidence: Humans possessess some unique features found in other species, hence, we are related to apes. At the known time, chimpanzees is our closest relative, and we share up to 98% of the DNA sequence with them.