plural noun[treated as singular]
Taxonomy based on the study of the genetic evolution of plant and animal populations.
- Uncertainties in history, archeology, biogeography, anthropology and biosystematics obscure the dates and places of the first domestication of cultivated crops.
- This programme increases knowledge and understanding of the biosystematics of both floras by improving description of their taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships.
- As such, biosystematics has everything to do with the future of every Namibian.
- Example sentences
- This is the challenge facing the biosystematist in evaluating the degree of difference necessary to separate species.
- The critical players in the biosystematists were the interdisciplinary Carnegie team that included the Danish genecologist Jens Clausen, the taxonomist David Keck, and the physiologist William Hiesey.
- There is a need for training of a biosystematist - options for form and location of training were discussed.
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