Scientific classification (disambiguation)
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Scientific classification is a practice and science of categorization.
Scientific classification may also refer to:
- Chemical classification
- Mathematical classification, construction of subsets into a set
- Statistical classification, the mathematical problem of assigning a label to an object based on a set of its attributes or features
Biology
[edit]- Taxonomy (biology)
- Alpha taxonomy, the science of finding, describing and naming organisms
- Cladistics, a newer way of classifying organisms, based solely on phylogeny
- Linnaean taxonomy, the classic scientific classification system
- Virus classification, naming and sorting viruses