Question

Importance and applications of biosystematics in biology

Answer 1

Biological systematic  is the study of the diversification of living forms, both past and present, and the relationship  among living things through time. Relationships are visualized as evolutionary trees.
 
These are the applications included :

1. Studying the diversity of organisms and the differentiation between extinct and living creatures. Biologists study the well-understood relationships by making many different diagrams and "trees".

2. Including the scientific names of organisms, species descriptions and overviews, taxonomic orders, and classifications of evolutionary and organism histories.

3. Explaining the biodiversity of the planet and its organisms. The systematic study is that of conservation.

4.Manipulating and controlling the natural world. This includes the practice of 'biological control', the intentional introduction of natural predators and disease.

Answer 2

The term systematics is derived from the Latinised Greek word and ‘systema’ means ‘together’. The systematics partly overlap with taxonomy and originally used to des­cribe the system of classification prescribed by early biologists. Linnaeus applied the word “Systematics” in the system of classi­fication in his famous book ‘Systema Natu­rae’ published in 1735.

Blackwelder and Boyden (1952) gave a definition that “sys­tematics is the entire field dealing with the kinds of animals, their distinction, classifica­tion and evolution”. C. G. Simpson (1961) considers that “Systematics is the scientific study of the kinds and diversity of organ­isms and of any and all relationships among them”.