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What does the word ‘taxonomy’ refer to?


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Taxonomy:

  1. The study of the diversity of living organisms and the evolutionary relationships among them is called systematics or taxonomy.
  2. The word ‘taxonomy’ is derived from the Greek word in which ‘taxis’ means arrangement, and ‘nomos’ means law.

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