- Types:
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biosystematics, biosystematy
use of data (e.g. cytogenetic or biochemical) to assess taxonomic relations especially within an evolutionary framework
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taxonomy
(biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification
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cladistic analysis, cladistics
a system of biological taxonomy based on the quantitative analysis of comparative data and used to reconstruct cladograms summarizing the (assumed) phylogenetic relations and evolutionary history of groups of organisms
