- In biology,
taxonomy (from
Ancient Gr**** τάξις (taxis) 'arrangement' and -νομία (-nomia) 'method') is the
scientific study of naming,
defining (cir****scribing)...
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Taxonomy is a
practice and
science concerned with
classification or categorization. Typically,
there are two
parts to it: the
development of an underlying...
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Human taxonomy is the
classification of the
human species within zoological taxonomy. The
systematic genus, Homo, is
designed to
include both anatomically...
- familia, pl.: familiae) is one of the
eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in
Linnaean taxonomy. It is
classified between order and genus. A
family may be...
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Taxonomy mnemonics are used to
memorize the
scientific classification applied in
taxonomy. They are
usually constructed with a
series of
words that begin...
- In
taxonomy, the
scientific classification of
living organisms, a
synonym is an
alternative scientific name for the
accepted scientific name of a taxon...
- Bloom's
taxonomy is a
framework for
categorizing educational goals,
developed by a
committee of
educators chaired by
Benjamin Bloom in 1956. It was first...
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Linnaean taxonomy can mean
either of two
related concepts: The
particular form of
biological classification (
taxonomy) set up by Carl Linnaeus, as set...
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class (Latin: classis) is a
taxonomic rank, as well as a
taxonomic unit, a taxon, in that rank. It is a
group of
related taxonomic orders.
Other well-known...
- biology,
taxonomic rank (which some
authors prefer to call
nomenclatural rank
because ranking is part of
nomenclature rather than
taxonomy proper, according...
