Did King Phillip Come Over For Good Spaghetti?

No we didn't have any royal company for dinner. It is a mnemonic to remember the classification system:  Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and species.

We worked on mapping out the taxon of nine organisms today: domestic cat (Felis catus), domestic dog (Canis lupus), American brown bear (Ursus americanus), human (Homo sapien), goldfish (Carassius auratus), Blackburnian Warbler (Dendroica fusca), honey bee (Apis mellifera), bess beetle (Odontotaenius disjunctus), and fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster).

Here are a few pictures of the project (click on thumbnail to see it larger):