Session 1
Section outline
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- The need for names in an
applied context (food labelling, risk
groups of microorganisms, search and
discovery in biotechnology)
- Names are the result of taxonomic studies
- What is a species? How do we circumscribe species?
- Identification, classification and nomenclature
- Procedures and resources
- Evolution in
taxonomy: phylogenetic trees as
tools for inferring relationships
among genes and organisms
- The need for names in an
applied context (food labelling, risk
groups of microorganisms, search and
discovery in biotechnology)