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A Case Study in Classification Why do scientists classify living things?
People classify things all the time, and usually for a very good reason: categorized things are easier to handle. Think of a mechanic doing a tune-up on the family car. If he needs a particular wrench to loosen the oil pan plug, he’ll be able to do his job more efficiently if he has all his wrenches sorted by size in one drawer of his tool chest, rather than tossed together willy-nilly.
Taxonomy is the science of classifying living things, and taxonomists classify living things for much the same reason as mechanics classify tools. Living things are easier to study and discuss if they have been grouped together into categories on the basis of shared characteristics. Exactly how taxonomy has done this, however, has changed over the years, and the reason why it has changed has significance for scientists - and biology students- who believe in the truth of God’s Word.
In this lab, you will read portions of Carl Linnaeus’s Systema Naturae along with the abstract from a modern scientific paper. An abstract is a paragraph that sums up a journal article or research paper, including the research question and the answer that the researchers found. This abstract that you will read is from a paper on the classification of myxozoans.
Myxozoans are microscopic marine and freshwater parasites whose primary hosts are mainly fish. The first myxozoan was identified in 1825, but myxozoans were not taxonomically classified until 1881. Since then, the taxonomy of myxozoans has undergone at least four major revisions, along with many minor revisions, and yet there is still disagreement on how they should be classified. You may not understand all the terminology in the follow passages, but don’t be too anxious about the specifics- were mainly interested in the central ideas. Your goal is to consider what classification is good for and what it’s not good for.
What is taxonomy?
the branch of science concerned with classification, especially of organisms; systematics.

What is an abstract?
a summary of the contents of a book, article, or formal speech.

What are myxozoans?
Microscopic, spore-forming, endoparasitic Cnidarians

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Science27 of the most iconic, jaw-dropping photos of the earth and the moon from spacedave mosher oct 1, 2018, 11: 13 am etnasa/flickrapollo 11 astronauts took this photo of earth on july 20, 1969.from the ground, earth looks like a boundless fertile plain that beckons to be explored and exploited.but astronauts would beg - and even plead - to differ."you realize that people often say, 'i hope to go to heaven when i die,'" jim lovell, an astronaut who flew on the apollo 8 and apollo 13 missions to the moon, previously told business insider. "in reality, if you think about it, you go to heaven when you're born."lovell has seen first-hand that we live on a tiny rock hopelessly lost in the void. he's also quick to tell you it's the only one we've got - a fragile spaceship for more than 7 billion people: "you arrive on a planet that has the proper mass, has the gravity to contain water and an atmosphere, which are the very essentials for life. and you arrive on this planet that's orbiting a star just at the right distance - not too far to be too cold, or too close to be too hot - and just at the right distance to absorb that star's energy and then, with that energy, cause life to evolve here in the first place. in reality, you know, god has really given us a stage, just looking at where we were around the moon, a stage on which we perform. and how that play turns out is up to us, i guess."humanity has recorded photos of earth from hundreds, thousands, millions, and even billions of miles away, some of them taken by lovell himself.these images not only scientists study our dynamic world, but also understand how a habitable planet looks from afar, which aids the search for more worlds. most importantly, however, the images underscore our peculiar existence on a mote of cosmic dust.take a moment to ponder 27 of the most arresting images of earth that humankind has ever captured from space.a

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A Case Study in Classification Why do scientists classify living things?
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