EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -In biology, taxonomy (from Ancient Greek (taxis) ‘arrangement’, and- (-nomia) ‘method’) is the scientific study of naming, defining (circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics.

Detailed explanation-2: -taxonomy, in a broad sense the science of classification, but more strictly the classification of living and extinct organisms-i.e., biological classification. The term is derived from the Greek taxis (“arrangement”) and nomos (“law”).

Detailed explanation-3: -Scientists use a two-name system called a Binomial Naming System. Scientists name animals and plants using the system that describes the genus and species of the organism. The first word is the genus and the second is the species. The first word is capitalized and the second is not.

Detailed explanation-4: -The science of classification is called taxonomy.

Detailed explanation-5: -Taxonomies are based on providing a hierarchical relationship map between a multitude of items while classification usually only groups items according to one or two attributes. The fundamental difference is that taxonomies describe relationships between items while classification simply groups items.