Biology
- Prokaryotes Vs Eukaryotes
While eukaryotic cells and prokaryotic cells have some characteristics in common, they diverged from their common ancestor billions of years ago, thus accounting for significant differences in overall structure and function. Here we will go over them....
- Eukaryotic And Prokaryotic Cells
What are Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic cells??? They are the tiny little building blocks of life and sometimes death! Eukaryotic cells are what make up humans, animals, and plants. They do everything from constructing us as babies with DNA to making...
- Prokaryotes Versus Eukaryotes
Cell Webquest ? Ms. Carter Prokaryotes versus Eukaryotes California Standard: Cell Biology 1. c Cell Biology: The fundamental life processes of plants and animals depend on a variety of chemical reactions that occur in specialized areas of the organism?s...
- Some Living Descriptions
Protista- unicellular eukaryotes, some multicelled formscell sturcture simple to very complexsome heterotrophs- protozoanssome autotrophs- algaeasexual repro, some both sexual, asexualmotile, non-motile, sizes- most microscopic but some may be 100m in...
- Famous Books In The Field Of Taxonomy
Book Author 1. Charaka Samhita Charaka (200 AD) 2. Classification of flowering plants ...
Biology
taxonomy
Term: taxonomy
 |
| Carl Linnaeus (1707 ?1778) |
Origin: Anc Greek
?????(=arrangement, order)
?????/nomos(=division) > ????/nemo(=distribute, divide)
Coined:The first attempt for describing and naming organisms is began by ancient philosopher Aristotle (384-322BC) who tried to classify animal species in his work : The History of Animals. In parallel his pupill Theophrastus (c.371-c.287 BC) wrote about plant classification (Historia Plantarum). During the 1700s Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist Carl Linnaeus (1707 ?1778) simplified the classification system of living organisms by imparting a two-part naming system, called binomial nomenclature, to make identification easier. American plant ecologist Robert Harding Whittaker (1920?1980) in 1969 proposed 5 kingdoms: Plantae, Animalia, Fungi, Protista and Monera. Prof Thomas Cavalier-Smith (1942- ) proposed a new Kingdom of Chromista in the system of 6 kingdoms: Plantae (eukaryotic characterised by cell wall) , Animalia (eukaryotic characterised by cells without cell wall), Fungi (eukaryotic characterised by cells without cell wall), Chromista (eukaryotic algae), Protozoa (unicellular eukaryotic) and Bacteria (procaryotic).
Definition:
Taxonomy is the naming of organisms in an ordered system according to their established natural relationship. Taxonomy uses taxonomic units, known as taxa (singular taxon).
- Prokaryotes Vs Eukaryotes
While eukaryotic cells and prokaryotic cells have some characteristics in common, they diverged from their common ancestor billions of years ago, thus accounting for significant differences in overall structure and function. Here we will go over them....
- Eukaryotic And Prokaryotic Cells
What are Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic cells??? They are the tiny little building blocks of life and sometimes death! Eukaryotic cells are what make up humans, animals, and plants. They do everything from constructing us as babies with DNA to making...
- Prokaryotes Versus Eukaryotes
Cell Webquest ? Ms. Carter Prokaryotes versus Eukaryotes California Standard: Cell Biology 1. c Cell Biology: The fundamental life processes of plants and animals depend on a variety of chemical reactions that occur in specialized areas of the organism?s...
- Some Living Descriptions
Protista- unicellular eukaryotes, some multicelled formscell sturcture simple to very complexsome heterotrophs- protozoanssome autotrophs- algaeasexual repro, some both sexual, asexualmotile, non-motile, sizes- most microscopic but some may be 100m in...
- Famous Books In The Field Of Taxonomy
Book Author 1. Charaka Samhita Charaka (200 AD) 2. Classification of flowering plants ...