Concepts

The arrangement of organisms forming a category ranking above a genus and below an order

Science which deals with interaction of nutrients and other substances in food in relation to maintenance, growth, reproduction, health and disease of an organism

Nutrition Explanation

This is also including food intake, absorption, assimilation, biosynthesis, […]

The specimen selected to serve as the single type specimen when an original holotype has been lost or destroyed or where the original author never cited a specimen

Classification of organisms according to relationship based on descent from a common ancestor

Mycoplasma bacteria is that lack a cell wall around their cell membrane

Mycoplasma Explanation

Though they do not have cell wall, they are unaffected by many antibiotics such as penicillin or other beta-lactam antibiotics that […]

The institution that cares for a collection of organisms artifacts and other objects such as artistic, historical, cultural or scientific importance

Characterization of a species by external features and its body shape

Morphological Species Explanation

This concept is applied to both asexual and sexual organisms. It is useful when gene flow information is not known. But […]

Lichen is a composite organisms that arises by the combination of algae (Phycobiont) or cyanobacteria with fungi (Mycobiont) in a symbiotic relationship

A specimen chosen as the type of a species or subspecies if the author of the name fails to designate a type

Kingdom is the highest taxonomic rank just below domain