biological taxonomy of life

The Golgi apparatus is a striking and fundamentally important organelle within eukaryotic cells, whose evolutionary origins are not fully understood. Research published today in BMC Biology helps uncover how the ancient Golgi may have formed and gained its important, stacked “pancake” structure.

It provides updated in 2018 year analysis of industries from Biology and Life Sciences, Genetics, Science Books Markets. ... which the critical questions are actually being studied, indicate some important areas for future research, and build bridges across traditional professional and taxonomic boundaries.

If you are committed to your idea of using taxonomy for this purpose, you might consider the taxonomic classes that best exemplify hardiness and adaptability. People might ... In many ways the whale is an especially dumb creature: It breathes a whole different medium from the one it lives in. Its life is like if ...

One of the first scientists to explore life's history with data was the 19th-century German paleontologist Heinrich Georg Bronn. ... These depict changes in the diversity of a higher taxonomic unit (say, a family) as a line whose thickness varies depending on the number of species or genera it contains at a ...

Taxonomic vandalism is a term coined to describe a situation when the system for scientifically naming flora and fauna is subverted for personal benefit or other purposes. Ideally ... The system in use today is called the binomial system, comprising a genus and a species name for each life form. Carolus ...

Monday, 12th February 2018 is Darwin Day, so-called in commemoration of the birth of the father of evolutionary biology, Charles Darwin, in 1809. The day ... taxonomically valid, as Darwin believed, or does it better suit a hierarchical structure as part of a biological organisation, rather than taxonomic rank?

During that period, it has remained under the cover of a taxonomic confusion, while going by a name shared with another species that feeds on common ... dogwood, A. petryi, does not differ only in its DNA barcode, but also in characters of the larva, genitalia and life history," explains Erik van Nieukerken.

Taxonomic vandalism isn't a new problem. “Decisions about how to partition life are as much a concern of politics and ethics as of biology,” two Australian biologists wrote in a June editorial in the journal Nature on how taxonomy's lack of oversight threatens conservation. They argued that the field needs a ...

“This study verifies observations that have been circulating in the scientific community and popular reports for years," said lead author Eric Post, a polar ecologist in the UC Davis Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology. "Yes, spring is arriving earlier, and the Arctic is experiencing greater ...