Systematics and Classifying Organisms

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is deals with the classification and nomenclature of organisms. It is a branch of biology that studies the distinctive characteristics of organisms and how they are related to each other through time

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systematics

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is a science that deals with naming and classifying organisms

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taxonomy

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it is a tree of life that shows the degree of relationship of each organisms as it descents that shows their common ancestors

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phylogeny

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is a diagram that shows the evolution of relationship of species over time from a common ancestor

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phylogenetic tree

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the establishment of a hierarchical system of classification based on the presumed relationship of organisms

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classification

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Developed the Great Chain of Being where the classification of organisms was based on natural complexity

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Aristotle

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regarded as the “Father of Botany”, as his works gave way for the first systematization of the botanical world

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Theophrastus

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his key characteristics of his works was that he was the first to classify living organisms based on structural similarities, and binomial nomenclature

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Carl Linnaeus

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biological system of naming an organism through which it is composed of two terms, the first term indicates the genus, meanwhile the second term indicates the species

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Binomial Nomenclature

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a biological classification of organisms where organisms are categorized branched of descendant lineage from a common ancestor

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