It is also a name for the page and a half of indecipherable foreplay used in university physics textbooks before they give you the formula for something. Engineering student: I forgot the formula for the volume of a sphere, but I was able to figure it out from the area of a circle using calculus.
Bacterial is the taxonomy, i.e. the rank-based classification, of bacteria. In the scientific classification established by Carolus Linnaeus, each species has to be assigned to a genus (binary nomenclature), which in turn is a lower level of a hierarchy of ranks (family, suborder, order, subclass, class, division/phyla, kingdom and domain).
In that system, bacteria are members of the domain Bacteria and phylum is the rank below domain as the rank kingdom is disused at present in bacterial taxonomy.In this classification scheme, Bacteria is (unofficially) subdivided into over 29 phyla with representatives cultured in a lab.any major clades of bacteria that exist but cannot currently be cultured are known solely via metagenomics and are called candidate phyla. If these are included, the number of phyla is 52 or higher. Therefore, the number of major phyla has increased from 12 identifiable lineages in 1987, to 52 as of 2003.