What’s the Diff? engages students in classifying plants and animals exhibited at Werribee Open Range Zoo. For thousands of years people have grouped living things in different ways. Organisms have been classified according to size, diet, habitat, skeletal structure, method of reproduction, period of activity, dentition, ease of domestication, vocalisation and method of regulating body heat. Over time scientists have devised a comprehensive model of classification that utilises many of these characteristics. It is a model that has been adapted and modified by succeeding generations of biologists, zoologists, botanists and ecologists as advances in scientific knowledge and technology provide scientists with a greater understanding of life on earth.

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