Taxonomy is the biological discipline that is concerned with the classification of living organisms into groups based on the shared possession of characteristics
practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships (biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification a classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc
n 1 The classification of organisms in an ordered system that indicates natural relationships 2 The science, laws, or principles of classification; systematics 3 Division into ordered groups or categories
Taxonomy is the process of naming and classifying things such as animals and plants into groups within a larger system, according to their similarities and differences. taxonomies the process or a system of organizing things into different groups that show their natural relationships, especially plants or animals. In biology, the classification of organisms into a hierarchy of groupings, from the general to the particular, that reflect evolutionary and usually morphological relationships: kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species. The black-capped chickadee, for example, is an animal (kingdom Animalia) with a dorsal nerve cord (phylum Chordata) and feathers (class Aves: birds) that perches (order Passeriformes: perching birds) and is small with a short bill (family Paridae), a song that sounds like "chik-a-dee" (genus Parus), and a black-capped head (species atricapillus). Most authorities recognize five kingdoms: monerans (prokaryotes), protists, fungi (see fungus), plants, and animals. Carolus Linnaeus established the scheme of using Latin generic and specific names in the mid-18th century; his work was extensively revised by later biologists
the science and methodology of classifying organisms based on physical and other similarities Taxonomists classify all organisms into a hierarchy, and give them standardized Latin or Latinized names There are seven main levels of classification in the hierarchy They are, from most to least inclusive: Kingdom; Phylum (or Division for algae, fungi, and plants); Class; Order; Family; Genus; and Species Taxonomists describe new species, classify organisms, and study speciation, the evolution of new species
The science, laws, or principles of classifying living organisms in specially named categories based on shared characteristics and natural relationships
The science of classifying organisms; the arrangement of organisms into systematic groups such as species, genus, family, and order It is the theoretical study of classification including its bases, principles, procedures, and rules
The study of the general principles of scientific classification, especially the orderly classification of plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships
Classification of organisms, including identification and nomenclature, according to a natural (chiefly morphological) system that seeks to depict evolvement Hence taxon, any designated group within a classification (for example, a cultivar, a species)
A scheme that partitions a body of knowledge and defines the relationships among the pieces It is used for classifying and undertranding the body of knowledge [22]