### activity:

Classification
* Many classifications exist that define vegetation or other land units.
* Most classifications describe types.
* Some classifications base on habits.
* also helps scientists to remember viruses and the diseases they cause
  - implies evolutionary relationships between groups
* are arrangements
  - restrictions
  - safety mechanisms of the self to avoid the incapacity of action
  - socially contructed products of our culture
* base on characteristics
  - comparison
  - principles
* basic tool used by resource managers.
* consist of individuals.
* contribute to descriptions.
* cover aspects.
* depend on types.
* describes the process of allocating a class or call number to an item.
* determines methods for organizing the diversity of life on Earth.
* have origins.
* helps show if living things are closely related.
* human undertaking.
* illustrates each animal's place in the animal kingdom, in outline form.
* include aspects
* involves a survey of all major plant and animal kingdoms.
* is an important aspect of understanding and describing the many life forms on earth
  - part of everyday life
* is based on evolutionary relationships and physical traits
  - similarities in appearance and behavior
  - concerned with the relative value of jobs within an organization
  - determined by evolutionary history
  - fundamental in biology
  - made according to type of animal, age, size and gender
  - one of the basic processes in science
  - that living things are sorted into groups based on their characteristics
* is the assignment of objects to a class
  - computation of a concept hierarchy based on subsumption
  - distribution of objects into groups
  - method used by scientists to order living organisms
  - primary thought pattern involved in preparing an outline
* is the process of grouping like objects into categories
  - organizing things into groups
  - placing data into groups, and is central to mapping
  - sorting organisms into groups according to their characteristics
  - subdividing of the living world into defensible categories
  - systematic categorization of entities into meaningful content
  - to assemble groups into larger groups
  - usually part of the early stages of understanding science
* means grouping languages together on the basis of some similarities
  - that objects can be thought of in terms of categories or classes
  - the classification of rivers and streams within the river corridor
  - to facilitate communication among actors in a field of practice
* natural occupation of humans and one of the most necessary of pastimes.
* occurs in most sports.
* part of the science of taxonomy.
* political act.
* pose many problems
* present difficulty.
* provide arrangements
  - insight
* represent decisions.
* reveal diversity
  - exceptional diversity
* show acceptable variation
* tend to change as knowledge increases.
* type of censorship and discriminates against minorities.
* use analyses
  - principal component analyses
* very broad term which simply means putting things in classes.
* way of organising living organisms into groups
  - to give a unique description to all things
* yield accuracy.
+ Rhombozoa: Invertebrates :: Parasites
  * Classification is controversial. They are probably a new phylum. Traditionally, dicyemids have been grouped with the Orthonectida in the Mesozoa. However, molecular phylogeny indicates that dicyemids may be more closely related to the roundworms.
+ Virus classification: Viruses
  * There are many different kinds of viruses. Scientists classify viruses to make it easier to learn about them. Classification also helps scientists to remember viruses and the diseases they cause.