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Diversity In Living Organisms
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How would you choose between two characteristics to be used for developing a hierarchy in classification?

Answer

The characteristic which is dependent on the previous one and would decide the variety in the next level should be chosen for developing a hierarchy in classification.

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Some More Questions From Diversity In Living Organisms Chapter

How are the criteria for deciding divisions in plants different from the criteria for deciding the subgroups among animals?

Explain how animals in vertebrata are classified into further subgroups.

Name the biggest animal and the tallest tree.

What is classification?

Name the branch of science which deals with classification.

Why do we classify organisms?

Give three examples of the range of variations that you see in life form around you.

What was the basis of animal classification done by Aristotle.

Why a method of classification of animals proposed by Aristotle was not accepted ? Explain with example.

What do you mean by ‘characteristics’? Explain with example.