BIOL 1202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Binomial Nomenclature, Mnemonic, Grocery Store
30 Oct 2017
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The discipline of systematics classifies organisms based on shared relationships. --systematics is the analytical study of the diversity and relationships of organisms both present day and extinct. Systematists use fossil, molecular, and genetic data to infer these relationships. Organizing or grouping things helps in dealing with them. The same idea holds true for the study of life. If organisms (or any items) are to be grouped then they need a name. -- taxonomy is the branch of biology concerned with naming and classifying the diverse forms of life. The origins of taxonomy date back to aristotle. There are many ways that organisms may be grouped. One of the early classification systems placed the animals in one group and the plants in another. The bacteria, fungi and many protists were considered plants while some of the protists were grouped with the animals. Plants vs. animals was an imperfect system and as a result didn"t last.
