biosystematics
- noun
- /ˌbaɪoʊsɪtəˈmætɪks/
- Specialized
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biosistemática
- By applying principles of biosystematics, we can determine how closely related certain plants are to each other.
Examples
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After five years at Colgate University, he moved to the University of California, Berkeley, where he and several colleagues, including E. B. Babcock, developed the area of "biosystematics." They did not invent the term, but by their empirical work and conceptual contributions, they gave it body and meaning and defined it for the decades to follow.
Academic text (1999) -
The theoretical and practical significance of biosystematics, the increasing national awareness of the growing number of known endangered biological species, and the accelerating destruction of habitats around the world (Carriker, 1967b) led us to this decision.
Academic text (1996) -
About half of these were involved in biosystematics.
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Highlighting these convergences need not and should not mean neglect of phylogenetically relevant characteristics and their central significance in biosystematics.
Academic text (2001) -
In spite of this disinterested prevailing opinion, we determined to consider biosystematics on par with ecology, giving equal emphasis to both fields.
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Hoberg works at the Beltsville (Maryland) Agricultural Research Center, in the ARS Biosystematics and National Parasite Collection Unit that has historically concentrated on parasites of food animals.
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From my perspective, it is certain that classical procedures in taxonomy and biosystematics will continue to be the indispensable master keys that swing open the doors to an understanding of the community structure and function (Butman and Carlton, 1995) of our vitiating world-ocean ecosystem.
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The study of biosystematics helps scientists understand the evolutionary relationships between different species.
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Researchers in biosystematics use genetic data to classify living organisms more accurately.
Synonyms
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7.4
A science that groups living things by their features and relationships
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8.8
The study of how living things are grouped and related
Study of genes and cell parts to find how living things are related
Surface Forms
Morphology
biosystematics = systematics (semi-transparent) = bio + system + atics
The meaning is built by adding bio- to the technical noun systematics, so the structure is understandable but still specialized.
Etymology
Biosystematics comes from the parts bio- meaning 'life' and system meaning 'an organized set', like the common English word system. So biosystematics is the study of how living things are organized and related to each other.