analytical technology of biological systematics, the Linnaean system has transformed into a system of modern biological classification intended to reflect...

taxon) in an ancestral or hereditary hierarchy. A common system of biological classification (taxonomy) consists of species, genus, family, order, class, phylum...

taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In binomial...

film classification Scientific classification (disambiguation) Biological classification of organisms Chemical classification Medical classification, the...

of the ideology of classification and typology found in the natural sciences. The term race was often used in a general biological taxonomic sense, starting...

Form classification is the classification of organisms based on their morphology, which does not necessarily reflect their biological relationships. Form...

In biological classification, class (Latin: classis) is a taxonomic rank, as well as a taxonomic unit, a taxon, in that rank. It is a group of related...

and those without. Carl Linnaeus created the first hierarchical biological classification for animals in 1758 with his Systema Naturae, which Jean-Baptiste...

(or synapomorphy). Phylogeny provides the basis of biological classification. This classification system is rank-based, with the highest rank being the...

classified as a group of viruses. Species form the basis for any biological classification system. Before 1982, it was thought that viruses could not be...