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taxonomy
1. The classification of organisms (plants and animals) in an ordered system that indicates their presumed natural relationships.
2. The science, laws, or principles of scientific classification; systematics.
3. Division into ordered groups or categories.
4. A classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin, etc.
2. The science, laws, or principles of scientific classification; systematics.
3. Division into ordered groups or categories.
4. A classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin, etc.
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nomo-, nom-, -nomy, -onomy, -nome, -nomic, -nomous, -nomical, -nomically
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taxi-, tax-, taxo-, taxio-, -taxia, -taxis, -taxy, tact-, -tactic, -tactical, -tactics
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beta taxonomy
The level of taxonomic study dealing with the arrangement of species into lower and higher taxa; or groups to which organisms are assigned according to the principles of taxonomy, including species, genus, family, order, class, and phylum.
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beta; B, β +
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An arithmetic method of classifying large numbers of bacterial organisms on the basis of their overall similarity to one another, according to the number of phenotypic (biochemical) characteristics that they have in common: The microbiologists, Linda and Jeff, used numerical taxonomy to help them identify and to categorize the various bacterial strains that they were examining.
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numer-, number-
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