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Taxonomy

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SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATION SONG (Taxonomy Song) | Science Music Video

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Taxonomy - Introduction

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Taxonomy in 60 Seconds

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Taxonomy and Taxonomic Hierarchy (Biological Classification of Living Things)

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Learn Biology: Classification- The Taxonomic Hierarchy

Taxonomy is the science of defining and naming groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics. Organisms are grouped together into taxa and these groups are given a taxonomic rank; groups of a given rank can be aggregated to form a super-group of higher rank, thus creating a taxonomic hierarchy. The principal ranks in modern use are domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus and species. The Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus is regarded as the father of taxonomy, as he developed a system known as Linnaean taxonomy for categorization of organisms and binomial nomenclature for naming organisms.
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