taxonomy

(noun)

the academic discipline of defining groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics and giving names to those groups. Each group is given a rank and groups of a given rank can be aggregated to form a super group of higher rank and thus create a hierarchical classification.

Related Terms

Examples of taxonomy in the following topics:

  • The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

    • The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) establishes guidelines to maintain viral family uniformity.
    • The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) is a committee which authorizes and organizes the taxonomic classification of viruses.
    • Describe the purpose and objectives of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

  • The Taxonomic Scheme

    • Bacterial taxonomy is the rank-based classification of bacteria.
    • Outline the factors that play a role in the classification of bacterial taxonomy

  • Classification of Microorganisms

    • The science of classifying organisms is called taxonomy and the groups making up the classification hierarchy are called taxa.
    • Taxonomy consists of classifying new organisms or reclassifying existing ones.

  • Newly Discovered Eukaryotes

    • According to the Global Taxonomy Initiative and the European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy, the total number of species for some phyla may be much higher than what was known in 2010:10–30 million insects; (of some 0.9 million we know today) 5–10 million bacteria; 1.5 million fungi; of some 0.075 million we know today .

  • The Deltaproteobacteria

    • The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic Names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and the phylogeny is based on 16S rRNA-based LTP release 106 by 'The All-Species Living Tree' Project.

  • Subfields of Microbiology

    • Microbiology can be also classified based on taxonomy, in the cases of bacteriology, mycology, protozoology, and phycology.
    • Veterinary microbiology: The study of the role in microbes in veterinary medicine or animal taxonomy.

  • Betaproteobacteria

    • The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and the phylogeny is based on 16S rRNA-based LTP release 106 by 'The All-Species Living Tree' Project.

  • Overview of Proteobacteria

    • The alpha, beta, delta, epsilon sections are monophyletic, but the Gammaproteobacteria due to the Acidithiobacillus genus is paraphyletic to Betaproteobacteria, according to multigenome alignment studies, which if done correctly are more precise than 16S (note that Mariprofundus ferrooxydans sole member of the Zetaproteobacteria was previously misclassified on NCBI taxonomy).

  • Alphaproteobacteria

    • The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and the phylogeny is based on 16S rRNA-based LTP release 106 by 'The All-Species Living Tree' Project.

  • Scarlet Fever

    • The T12 virus itself has not been placed into a taxon by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses.