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

Astronomy[edit]

• Galaxy morphological classification
• Stellar classification

See also[edit]

• Categorization, general
• Classification of the sciences (Peirce)
• Linguistic typology
• Systematic name

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