When you use abstractions to actually do work, the effeciency matters a lot. Hence programming languages.
When you use them to mentally sort things for general knowledge of what’s out there and memory storage like in biology, if it works it works. Kingdoms seem to work for this.
When you use them to mentally sort things for general knowledge of what’s out there and memory storage like in biology, if it works it works. Kingdoms seem to work for this.
How often are the kingdom’s really used in a lab or with detailed research? I’m guessing not often (I’ve only done intro to bio myself though I’ve talked to researchers about there work and the kingdom’s never came up).
They might be useful for giving people learning biology a general grasp of the various organisms and some differences, put into large categories.
There might be some times it’s useful, maybe as a starting place in comparing different organisms, but it isn’t an abstraction that is the base of how the actual field does research.
(As opposed to PLs, where the abstraction is the main tool of the craft)
When you use abstractions to actually do work, the effeciency matters a lot. Hence programming languages.
When you use them to mentally sort things for general knowledge of what’s out there and memory storage like in biology, if it works it works. Kingdoms seem to work for this.
Could you expand this a bit ?
How often are the kingdom’s really used in a lab or with detailed research? I’m guessing not often (I’ve only done intro to bio myself though I’ve talked to researchers about there work and the kingdom’s never came up).
They might be useful for giving people learning biology a general grasp of the various organisms and some differences, put into large categories.
There might be some times it’s useful, maybe as a starting place in comparing different organisms, but it isn’t an abstraction that is the base of how the actual field does research.
(As opposed to PLs, where the abstraction is the main tool of the craft)