BIOL 1202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Binomial Nomenclature, Mnemonic, Grocery Store
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The discipline of systematics classifies organisms based on shared relationships. 1: systematics is the analytical study of the diversity and relationships of organism, both present-day and extinct, systematisms use fossil, molecular, and genetic data to infer these relationships. Organizing or grouping things helps in dealing with them: example: grocery store or your closet, the same idea holds true for the study of life. If organisms (or any items) are to be grouped then they need a name. In biology this begins with taxonomy: taxonomy is the branch of biology concerned with naming and classifying the diverse forms of life, the origins of taxonomy date back to aristotle. Systematics is an inexact process: all grouping methods are subject to problems, plants vs. animals was an imperfect system and as a result didn"t last. The foundation for modern classification, binomial nomenclature, was developed by. Linnaeus in the 1700"s: linnaeus also developed a scheme where organisms are classified or grouped into categories.
