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Dear Kevin
(lemmy.world)
Anybody got a sexy mnemonic that includes subphylum, subclass, superorder, suborder, etc? Or, more to the point, what taxonomic system gets us to the orgy the fastest?
Didn't know Kevin was such a sub...
Sure, just tag "and subphylum, subclass, superorder, suborder" to the end, so that it's ASSSS
And you know everyone wants and ASSSS orgy
spermy scat sometime soon
See my stupid ass would remember the fun phrase but not the related factual word. So I'd just have phrases with no inkling what the original info was.
Literally taught my son about Prince Philip a few hours ago. And learned domains is a thing now. Wish I could show him this for the serendipity but def no lol
I hate that I have learned this factoid.
Do these mnemonics actually help?
Well I still remember Roy G. Biv and Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally so maybe?
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I literally couldn't tell you a single biology fact from my year studying it in HS but I remember King Phillip Came Over From Germany Stoned.
I learned Kids Playing Catch On Freeways Get Splattered about 20 years ago and I still remember, despite never needing to use it. So, the mnemonic helps to remember, but remembering doesn't really help me
It helps you understand the world you live in and be a well rounded individual instead of cog whose only purpose is to know the things they need to make their owner more money and nothing else.
Depends on the mnemonic. It has to flow and you have to know the steps individually. Although there was one time I spent so long trying to come up with a good mnemonic for the citric acid cycle that I just learned it and gave up.
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Ah the things I learned from TV Funhouse!
I don't understand why you'd ever need to know this. What is a phylum anyway? Which animals share a phylum? Are bonobos and chimpanzees in a phylum, a family, a class? And what does that tell us about their relation that we couldn't already tell from their characteristics?
The new thing seems to be "clades". I'm not sure if it's a complete replacement of the traditional taxonomy, though.
It isn't, it's just a description of evolutionary descent. An additional classification instead of a replacement.
this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2025
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