Taxonomy

Cards (19)

  • the science of classifying living things. In Greek, taxonomy came from “taxes” and “nomos”
    Taxonomy
  • taxes
    arrangement
  • nomos
    law
  • is the assignment of scientific names to the various taxonomic
    categories and individual organisms. [based on international rulings]
    Nomenclature
  • attempts the orderly arrangement of organisms into a hierarchy
    of taxa (categories).
    Classification
  • is the process of discovering and recording the traits or organisms so that they may be recognized or named and placed in an overall taxonomic scheme.
    Identification
  • a Swedish botanist who laid down the basic rules for classification and established taxonomic categories, or taxa
    carl von linne or linnaeus
  • based on differences of phenotypic characteristics
    sub specie
  • serologic differences; antigen, antibody composition
    serovarieties
  • biochemical test result
    biovarieties
  • is based on structural similarities and differences, such as prokaryotic and eukaryotic cellular organization, and the way these organisms obtained their nutrition

    Whittaker’s tree
  • MoneraProtistsPlantsFungiAnimals
  • he devised a Three-Domain System of Classification
    carl woese
  • Provides the accepted labels by which organisms are universally recognized.
    International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria (ICNB)
  • every organism is assigned a genus and a species of Latin or Greek derivation.
  • the first letter is always capitalized
    genus
  • first letter is always lower case
    species
  • relate to an organism’s genetic makeup, including the
    nature of the organism’s genes and constituent nucleic
    acids.
    genotypic characteristic
  • are based on features beyond the genetic level and include both readily observable characteristics and characteristics that may require extensive analytic procedures to be detected.
    phenotypic characteristic