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What is the scientific classification of a sheep?


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Scientific classification:

  1. Biological classification or scientific classification is the scientific process of grouping and subgrouping organisms.
  2. It is based on their similarities and differences.
  3. Then placing the group in a hierarchy of categories.
  4. Scientific classification needs to detect new organisms.

Scientific classification of a sheep:

  1. Sheep are found in the wild in the mountains, tundra, and desert.
  2. Sheep have been kept as livestock for their hair, skin, milk, and meat.
  3. Kingdom - Animalia
  4. Phylum - Chordata
  5. Class - Mammalia
  6. Order - Artiodactyla
  7. Family - Bovidae
  8. Genus - Ovis
  9. species - aries

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