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Taxonomy

A branch of biology that names and groups organisms according to their characteristics adn evolutionary relations.

History

• Greeks and Aristotle made the early attemps to classify.
• Nested Hierachy-Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, General, and Species. (Big to Small)
• Bionomial Nomendiature is a system of using two names to identify species.

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