BIOL 1202 Chapter : Chapter 26
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The discipline of systematics classifies organisms based on shared relationships. --systematics | the analytical study of the diversity and relationships of organisms, both present day & extinct. The same idea holds true for the study of life. Systematists use fossil, molecular, and genetic data to infer these relationships. Organizing or grouping things helps in dealing with them. -systematics is the analytical study of the diversity and relationships of organisms, both present day and extinct. There are many ways that organisms may be grouped. The origins of taxonomy date back to aristotle. If organisms (or any items) are to be grouped then they need a name. -- taxonomy | the branch of biology concerned with naming and classifying the diverse forms of life. The bacteria, fungi and many protists were considered plants while some of the protists were grouped with the animals. One of the early classification systems placed the animals in one group and the plants in another.
