The first person to try to classify living things in a scientific way was a SWEDISH naturalist called Carolus Linnaeus.
He introduced his system of classification in 1735. He divided all the different kinds of living things into groups called species. He recognised 12000 species.
Genera (singular: genus): Each genus contains several species with similar characteristics.
Several genera are then grouped into a family, families into orders, orders into classes, classes into phyla and finally phyla into kingdoms.
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