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Diversity In Living Organisms
What are the advantages of classifying organisms?
Classification is advantageous in the following way:
(i) Classification makes the study of huge varieties of organisms easy.
(ii) It helps us to understand the interrelationship among different groups of organisms.
(iii) It helps in the specific identification of any given organism.
(iv) The study of a few representatives from each distinct group helps us to integrate the idea of life as a whole.
(v) It reveals the relationships among various groups of organisms.
(vi) It provides information about plants and animals, which occur in specific geographical regions.
(vii) It indicates the evolutionary relationship by establishing the gradually increasing complexity of form and structure in different groups of organisms.
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What are the major divisions in the plantae? What is the basis for these divisions?
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.
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