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  2. Biological organisation - Wikipedia

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    Biological organisation is the organisation of complex biological structures and systems that define life using a reductionistic approach. [1] The traditional hierarchy, as detailed below, extends from atoms to biospheres. The higher levels of this scheme are often referred to as an ecological organisation concept, or as the field, hierarchical ...

  3. Taxonomy (biology) - Wikipedia

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    e. In biology, taxonomy (from Ancient Greek τάξις (taxis) 'arrangement' and -νομία (-nomia) ' method ') is the scientific study of naming, defining (circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics. Organisms are grouped into taxa (singular: taxon) and these groups are given a taxonomic ...

  4. Linnaean taxonomy - Wikipedia

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    The particular form of biological classification (taxonomy) set up by Carl Linnaeus, as set forth in his Systema Naturae (1735) and subsequent works. In the taxonomy of Linnaeus there are three kingdoms, divided into classes, and the classes divided into lower ranks in a hierarchical order. A term for rank-based classification of organisms, in ...

  5. CATH database - Wikipedia

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    The CATH team releases new data both as daily snapshots, and official releases approximately annually. The latest release of CATH-Gene3D (v4.3) was released in December 2020 and consists of: [8] 500,238 structural protein domain entries. 151 mln non-structural protein domain entries. 5,481 homologous superfamily entrie.

  6. Order (biology) - Wikipedia

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    Order (Latin: ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between family and class. In biological classification, the order is a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms and recognized by the nomenclature codes. An immediately higher rank, superorder, is sometimes added ...

  7. Taxonomy - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Taxonomy is a practice and science concerned with classification or categorization. Typically, there are two parts to it: the development of an underlying scheme of classes (a taxonomy) and the allocation of things to the classes (classification). Generalized scheme of taxonomy. Originally, taxonomy referred only to the classification ...

  8. Domain (biology) - Wikipedia

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    Intermediate minor rankings are not shown. In biological taxonomy, a domain (/ dəˈmeɪn / or / doʊˈmeɪn /) (Latin: regio[1]), also dominion, [2] superkingdom, realm, or empire, is the highest taxonomic rank of all organisms taken together. It was introduced in the three-domain system of taxonomy devised by Carl Woese, Otto Kandler and Mark ...

  9. Unit of selection - Wikipedia

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    A unit of selection is a biological entity within the hierarchy of biological organization (for example, an entity such as: a self-replicating molecule, a gene, a cell, an organism, a group, or a species) that is subject to natural selection. There is debate among evolutionary biologists about the extent to which evolution has been shaped by ...