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'''Taxonomy''' (from {{lang-grc|[[wiktionary:τάξις|τάξις]]}} ''[[taxis]]'', "arrangement," and {{lang|grc|[[wiktionary:νόμος|-νομία]]}} ''[[:wikt:-nomy|-nomia]]'', "[[Scientific method|method]]") is the [[science]] of defining groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics and giving names to those groups. Organisms are grouped together into [[taxon|taxa]] (singular: taxon) and given a [[#Taxonomic rank|taxonomic rank]]; groups of a given rank can be aggregated to form a super group of higher rank and thus create a taxonomic hierarchy. The Swedish botanist [[Carl Linnaeus|Carolus Linnaeus]] is regarded as the father of taxonomy, as he developed a system known as [[Linnaean classification]] for categorization of organisms and [[binomial nomenclature]] for naming organisms.
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'''Taxonomy''' (from Greek τάξις ''taxis'', "arrangement," and -νομία ''-nomia'', "method") is the science of defining groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics and giving names to those groups. Organisms are grouped together into [[taxon|taxa]] (singular: taxon) and given a [[#Taxonomic rank|taxonomic rank]]; groups of a given rank can be aggregated to form a super group of higher rank and thus create a taxonomic hierarchy. The Swedish botanist [[Carl Linnaeus|Carolus Linnaeus]] is regarded as the father of taxonomy, as he developed a system known as [[Linnaean classification]] for categorization of organisms and [[binomial nomenclature]] for naming organisms.
==Taxonomic rank==
==Taxonomic rank==