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PRINCIPLES OF INSECT TAXONOMY

PRINCIPLES OF INSECT TAXONOMY             Grouping all living things into series of sets and subsets based on similarities and naming them is called taxonomy. It is essential to correctly identify an organism. Systematics             It is defined as study of diversity of organisms and their inter-relationship. It includes description of new species, identification of previously known species and their evolutionary relationship Taxonomy             The practice of identifying, describing and naming organisms based on the rules of Zoological Nomenclature and assigning them into particular groups is called taxonomy.  Classification             It is the arrangement of organisms into taxonomic groups. Nomenclature   ...