TAXONOMY

Taxonomy

Taxonomy is the science of defining groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics and giving names to those groups. Organisms are grouped together into taxa and given a taxonomic rank; groups of a given rank can be aggregated to form a super group of higher rank and thus create a taxonomic hierarchy. The Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus is regarded as the father of taxonomy, as he developed a system known as Linnaean classification for categorization of organisms and binomial nomenclature for naming organisms.

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taxonomy

Noun

  1. The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  2. A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
  3. The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.


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