Edu:Taxonomy
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Taxonomy
Definitions
D1 the study of the general principles of scientific classification
D2 [ Arp et al., 2015 ]
- A representational artifact taking the form of a graph with nodes representing kinds of things (universals) and edges representing subtype or subclass (is-a) relations among these types of things. The most familiar kind of taxonomy is the classification of living things: domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species.