Biology is the study of life and the world is occupied with 1000s of different types of organisms with different levels of relatedness. In order to have a common language and create meaningful relations and studies humans set out to identify and separate the different organisms.

What different types of classification are you familiar with? How do you suppose these originated and what problems may have existed with the groupings?

Read the following information to gain a basic understanding of Taxonomy.

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