scientific classification
Naming living things
Scientific classification is the system biologists use to organize all living things into hierarchical groups based on shared characteristics and evolutionary relationships.
The major ranks descend from broad to specific: kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species.
The scientific classification of humans places us in the genus Homo and species sapiens.
Also called taxonomy.
- Systema NaturaeFoundational biological classification text
- taxonomyScience of categorical arrangement
- typologyClassification by shared traits
- Latin namesFormal species designations
- phylogeneticsScience of ancestral relationships
Carl Linnaeus · typification · cladistics · species · natural order · living things · family · tree of life · common ancestor · dichotomous key · field guide · ICZN · genus · species identification · museum collections · evolutionary biology · phylum · ichthyology
scientific classificationdisorganization
Absence of systematic arrangement
jumble · unclassified · miscellany · hodgepodge · chaos
scientific classificationsuperstition
Baseless belief in omens
mythology · folk belief · magical thinking · folk wisdom · old wives' tales
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