Taxonomic Hierarchy

The sheer complexity of organisms seems so bewildering that some people believe, life to be unfathomable by the rational mind. Biologists constantly chip away at this notion by exploring and discovering real explanation for phenomena. Our ability to solve these natural mysteries would be severely handicapped, however, without another hierarchy of organisation that creates meaningful order out of the overwhelming variety of organisms to be studied. This orderly system enables us todistinguish clearly between different types of organisms. Also it allows us to classify and assign names to the almost two million known types of living organisms as well as their extinct ancestors.