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 The term "systematics" is sometimes usedsynonymously with "taxonomy" and may be confusedwith "scientific classification."
However, taxonomy is properly the describing,identifying, classifying, and naming of organisms,while "classification" is focused on placing organismswithin groups that show their relationships to otherorganisms.
All of these biological disciplines can be involved withextinctandextantorganisms. However, systematics alone deals specifically with relationships throughtime, requiring recognition of the fossil record whendealing with the systematics of organisms.
SYSTEMATICS
MR. IRVIN N. ECALNIR, MAED-SCI
 
Systematic biology (hereafter calledsimply systematics) is the field that
(a) provides scientific names for organisms,
(b) describes them,
(c) preserves collections of them,
(d) provides classifications for the organisms, keysfor their identification, and data on theirdistributions,
(e) investigates their evolutionary histories, &
(f) considers their environmental adaptations.
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