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As nouns the difference between taxonomy and agnath

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while agnath is (zoology) an agnathan.

taxonomy

English

(wikipedia taxonomy)

Noun

(taxonomies)
  • The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

    • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology

    agnath

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (zoology) An agnathan.
  • * 1979 , Stephen C. Wood, Evolution of Respiratory Processes , Marcel Dekker, ISBN 0-8247-6793-4, page 218:
    • Evolution of vertebrates was accompanied by a gradual increase in oxygen availability, from the irrespirable atmosphere of the Precambrian to a PO? at 7 mmHg with the first vertebrates (agnaths ), to the present sea level PO? value of 160 mmHg with the first reptiles.
  • * 1996 , George Christopher Williams, Adaptation and Natural Selection , Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-02615-7, page 51:
    • The gnathostomes almost entirely replaced the agnaths , presumably because they were more effective fishes.
  • * 2002 , Harold J. Morowitz, The Emergence of Everything , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-513513-X, page 113:
    • Thus, although tunicates are presumably intermediate between flatworms and agnaths', the larval tunicate more closely resembles the flatworm and adult ' agnath .
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