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Taxonomy

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Taxonomy, History Of Summary
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The origin of plant taxonomy goes back centuries, and there are thought-provoking parallels between folk classifications and those produced in more recent times. The Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) provided the first widely used...
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Microbial Taxonomy Summary
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Microbial taxonomy is a means by which microorganisms can be grouped together. Organisms having similarities with respect to the criteria used are in the same group, and are separated from the other groups of microorganisms that have different...
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Classification Systems Summary
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There are more than five million different species on Earth. While each species represents the end point of a unique evolutionary path, biologists do not treat each one as completely unrelated to the others. Instead, they have created biological...
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Taxonomist Summary
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Taxonomy, or systematics, is the study of the kinds of organisms and their evolutionary history and relationships. Plant taxonomists collect and study groups of plants, focusing on the ways species arise, relationships among them, and selective forces...
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Taxonomy Information
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Taxonomy is the practice and science of classification. The word comes from the Greek τάξις, taxis, 'order' + νόμος, nomos, 'law' or 'science'. Taxonomies, or taxonomic schemes, are composed of taxonomic units known as taxa (singular taxon),...
 


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Tantalizing taxonomies.
04/01/2007: 480 words, approx. 2 pages
Information architecture, content management and taxonomy consultancy Earley & Associates (earley.com) has announced its acquisition of Wordmap (wordmap.com), a vendor of enterprise taxonomy management software, for an undisclosed sum. Seth Earley, principal of Earley & Associates, reports, "For some time we have...
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Shopping cart book wins wacky 'title'
4/13/2007: 279 words, approx. 1 pages
When it comes to wacky titles, a book on rogue shopping carts goes straight to the express lane for winners."The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification" was named the winner Friday of the Bookseller/Diagram Prize for oddest book title.The...
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Sweden kicks off Linnaeus celebrations
1/27/2007: 371 words, approx. 1 pages
There are places on the Moon named after him. His face appears on Swedish currency, and an era of scientific history bears his name. But Carl Linnaeus is best known for creating the system of classifying living organisms that became the international standard.Sweden on Saturday...
 


 

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