How do you describe animals and insect?

Answer 1

Insects are animals, just as cats andelephants and whales and you and I are- but I'm not sure what level you are looking for.

Living things are divided taxanomically into two Kingdoms: Plants and Animals (though bacteria and virii inhabit a sort of twilight in between).

At their most basic, allanimals from single-celled amoebae to we humans are living organisms that differ from the Plant Kingdom in being mobileand sentient to at least some degree, i.e. they can respond to physical or chemical stimuli -but are notnecessarilyaware of themselves.

Beyond that, for both plants and animals, you enter the world ofTaxonomy, dividing them allinto"family trees" that end in the individual genus andspecies, plus if applicable, variation,name in Latin.

On that Animal Kingdon tree therefore we are Hominids,making our genus and species name Homo Sapiensis.

(Note: the Latin words, starting with capital letters,should be eitheritalicised or underlined,by scientific convention. Answerskeeps removing the italicising I had applied from its own tool-bar.)

The same applies even if the species is known known now only as a fossil. E.g., Titanites Giganteus was a large ammonite, a marine animal resembling a squid with a big, coiled shell, butknown now only as impressive fossilsfound in the late-Jurassic marine Portlandianlimestone.

Latin and the taxanomic structure are used for international understanding, so a biologist in one country can understand the names in a formal paper or text-book written in another with a different language.