Classification
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in biology, is the identification, naming, and grouping of
organisms into a formal system. The vast numbers of living forms are named
and arranged in an orderly manner so that biologists all over the world can
be sure they know the exact organism that is being examined and discussed.
Groups of org ....
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assemblages of organisms, many of which are only distantly related.
Carolus Linnaeus is probably the single most dominant figure in systematic
classification. Born in 1707, he had a mind that was orderly to the extreme.
People sent him plants from all over the world, and he would devise a way
to relate them. At the age of thirty-two he was the author of fourteen
botanical works. His two most famous were Genera Plantarum, developing an
artificial sexual system, and Species Plantar ....
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