Biology 3484A/B Lecture Notes - Western Honey Bee, Carl Linnaeus, Barringtonia
24 Dec 2012
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Systematics (systematic biology) is the science of biodiversity and it consists of taxonomy and phylogenetics. Taxonomy is the science of discovering and describing (including naming) new species, genera, families, etc. It is the science of building phylogenetic classifications. Mostly what we discover now are new species (discovering new genera and families is rare). Phylogenetics is the study of the evolutionary history of life. It is the study of the evolutionary history of any taxonomic group. Phylogeny is the actual evolutionary history of a species, family, or genera. Carl linnaeus (1707-1778) is the father of modern taxonomy. He was a swedish botanist, zoologist, and physician, and he did taxonomy of both plants and animals. He came up with biological classification, which is a hierarchical classification of life. It is an organizing system of groups within groups, based on observable characteristics of organisms. He also came up with binomial nomenclature and he described and classified thousands of species of plants and animals.
