As a result of the confusion using common names, scientists have designed a system to classify or group living organisms. Today, the modern science of grouping living things is called Taxonomy. Taxonomists put all living things into arbitrarily selected groupings or categories that lump the organisms together with other living things based on:
- Structural similarities and differences
- Genetic similarities and differences
- Biochemical similarities and differences
- Cellular organization
- Evidence from evolutionary relationships
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