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Okay, so a chapter 1 problem 10 asks us, which of these following four words apply a scientific knowledge to the needs of society.
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So we'll just start here with evolution, and now evolution was this process by which something with a particularly beneficial trait survives better, and eventually that trait becomes prevalent.
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So if we have these leaves and one is smooth and one is spiky in a population and the smooth one, gets eaten by predators, eventually that population of plant will most likely consist of all or nearly all spiky leafed plants.
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So this natural process is not necessarily applied to society in any profound way.
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It just sort of occurs out in the wild so we can eliminate that from a solution.
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Now both taxonomy and systematics are actually forms of classifying organisms.
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Taxonomy is a subset of systematics.
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So taxonomy simply classifies organisms...