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Taxonomy vs Lineage - What's the difference?

taxonomy | lineage |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and lineage

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while lineage is descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.

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

    lineage

    English

    Alternative forms

    * linage

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=July 19 , author=Ella Davies , title=Sticks insects survive one million years without sex , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=They traced the ancient lineages of two species to reveal the insects' lengthy history of asexual reproduction. }}
  • (advertising) A number of lines of text in a column.
  • * 1927 , William Leonard Crum, Advertising Fluctuations, Seasonal and Cyclical
  • Total newspaper advertising lineage in the North Atlantic region

    See also

    * genealogy

    References

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