Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli  40

Naming taxonomic ranks like genus, domain, etc. is a fucking waste of time, only useful before we developed molecular biology.

All that matters is the tree of clades with examples of species in each clade, and common characteristics shared by the clade.

And with molecular biology, we can build those trees incredibly well for extant species. When extinct species are involved however, things get more complicated.

Anything that is not eukaryote, i.e. archaea and bacteria, see e.g.: Figure "Coral of life by János Podani (2019)".

Not a clade, and therefore a term better forgotten!

A clade name for arkarya is a proposed clade name for archaea plus eukarya.

Each of the omics studies a subset of molecular biology with a data intensive and broad point of view that tries to understand global function or organisms, trying to understand what every biologically relevant molecule does as part of the hole metabolism.

The main omics are:

Omics might be stamp collecting, but maybe it is a bit more like Trading card game/Magic: The Gathering collecting, in which the cards that you are collecting actually have specific uses and interactions, especially considering that most metabolic pathways are analogous across many species.