• analytical technology of biological systematics, the Linnaean system has transformed into a system of modern biological classification intended to reflect...
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  • of classification is the systematic classification involved in the design and utilization of taxonomic schemes such as the biological classification of...
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    taxon) in an ancestral or hereditary hierarchy. A common system of biological classification (taxonomy) consists of species, genus, family, order, class, phylum...
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  • of the ideology of classification and typology found in the natural sciences. The term race was often used in a general biological taxonomic sense, starting...
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    taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In binomial...
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    In biological classification, class (Latin: classis) is a taxonomic rank, as well as a taxonomic unit, a taxon, in that rank. It is a group of related...
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    Form classification is the classification of organisms based on their morphology, which does not necessarily reflect their biological relationships. Form...
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    and those without. Carl Linnaeus created the first hierarchical biological classification for animals in 1758 with his Systema Naturae, which Jean-Baptiste...
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    (or synapomorphy). Phylogeny provides the basis of biological classification. This classification system is rank-based, with the highest rank being the...
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    classified between family and class. In biological classification, the order is a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms and recognized by the...
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  • classified as a group of viruses. Species form the basis for any biological classification system. Before 1982, it was thought that viruses could not be...
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    can mean either of two related concepts: The particular form of biological classification (taxonomy) set up by Carl Linnaeus, as set forth in his Systema...
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    the last few decades, the cladistic approach has revolutionized biological classification and revealed surprising evolutionary relationships among organisms...
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  • modeling is undertaken. Biological classification – The science of identifying, describing, defining and naming groups of biological organisms Biometric –...
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    categorization or classification. A taxonomy (or taxonomical classification) is a scheme of classification, especially a hierarchical classification, in which...
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  • the free dictionary. A species is one of the basic units of biological classification. Species may also refer to: The Species film series Species (franchise)...
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  • uniting them in a common biological theory: the theory of organic evolution. The result was a reconstruction of the classification of animals upon a genealogical...
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    In biological classification, subspecies (pl.: subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size...
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    of sculptures, the copies must be even three-dimensional. In biological classification (taxonomy), the publication of the description of a taxon has...
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    involves, or is related to, biological classification, scientific taxonomy and phylogenetics. Biological classification is the method by which botanists...
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    systematic biology, systematics, biosystematics, scientific classification, biological classification, phylogenetics: At various times in history, all these...
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    taxonomists, working within the Linnaean two-kingdom system of biological classification, found them difficult to classify. It was the question of where...
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    In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: subfamilia, plural subfamiliae) is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but...
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    Taxon (category Biological classification)
    contributed to this field. The idea of a unit-based system of biological classification was first made widely available in 1805 in the introduction of...
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    vernacular naming system, as distinct from scientific taxonomy. Folk biological classification is the way people traditionally describe and organize the world...
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    The history of plant systematics—the biological classification of plants—stretches from the work of ancient Greek to modern evolutionary biologists. As...
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    it is important in the history of systematics. Outside strict biological classification, the term "pachyderm" is commonly used to describe elephants,...
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  • classification of trace fossils is an unreasonable proposition. The taxonomic classification of trace fossils parallels the taxonomic classification of...
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  • classification are exemplified by biological classification. All classification systems are established for a purpose. The scientific classification system...
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    two-empire system (two-superkingdom system) was the top-level biological classification system in general use before the establishment of the three-domain...
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