taxonomy

Noun
  1. A classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc (synset 108395087)
    is a type of: hierarchy - a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system
  2. (biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification (synset 106162674)
    referred to in: biological science, biology - the science that studies living organisms
    is a type of: systematics - the science of systematic classification
    subtypes: cladistic analysis, cladistics - a taxonomic system of classifying species based on the branching patterns of cladograms that are built to infer phylogenetic relations
  3. Practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships (synset 101015712)
    is a type of: assortment, categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization - the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type

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