Microbiology Fundamentals: A Clinical Approach - Standalone book

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ISBN: 9780078021046

Author: Marjorie Kelly Cowan Professor, Jennifer Bunn

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

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Taxonomy is the science of naming, classifying, and describing organisms. The taxonomy will include all the plants, microorganisms, and animals on this planet. Carl Linnaeus coined the taxonomy term. He is known as the father of taxonomy. Microbial taxon…

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Microbiology Fundamentals: A Clinical Approach - Standalone book

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Solution Summary: The author explains that taxonomy involves the segregation of organisms into different taxa and acts as a mnemonic device or artificial memory device.

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