Question

Read the quotation below:

Nature is messy. Science is tentative. As long as these truths remain relevant to biological research, scientific names will continue to be revised. –R. Aidan Martin

What does this quotation suggest about how a classification system needs to function to support modern science?

Answer 1

@Whitemonsterbunny17

Answer 2

Important part:
"As long as these truths remain relevant to biological research, scientific names will continue to be revised."

Answer 3

It needs to provide a strictly limited system to reduce confusion and disarray.

It must be flexible enough to adapt to new discoveries and still provide a meaningful framework.

It needs to loosely group similar organisms until all organisms are fully studied.

It must have enough categories to accommodate all future discoveries while retaining its original structure.

Answer 4

I am thinking either the second one or the last one.

Answer 5

yeah me to but I like the second one a little more hbu

Answer 6

I'm not sure, they are both pretty equal in my opinion, lemme get another opinion..
@e.mccormick

Answer 7

You are not revising if you make all the categories in advance.

Answer 8

In a general sense; I suppose it's getting at the fact that different fields of biology define species (and life in general) differently. For instance phylogentic cladograms are rather useful; but, has a big draw back in the sense of--what % difference is a new species... primatologists would say ~5% a microbiologist would say as little as 0.5% (the lowest known difference in nucleobases in a gram negative vs gram postitive bacteria)

Answer 9

@agreene did you see the possible answers?

Answer 10

lol i did now; meh it's still a good concept that i pointed out .. heh