The Classification of Organisms: Basis for Classification

The video discusses the identification, description, naming, and classification of living species, emphasizing the importance of evolutionary relationships. It explains how new species evolve from pre-existing ones and how shared characteristics suggest common ancestry. Systematic biology, or systematics, is introduced as the study of life's diversification and evolutionary relationships. The construction of phylogenetic trees is explained, highlighting phylogeny's role in understanding an organism's evolutionary history and its connections to other species.

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