NEET: Biological Classification

Classification - Correct Answer-It is the arrangement of living organisms into groups created on the basis of similarities and dismilarities Car von Linneaus - Correct Answer-Considered as the father of taxonomy - also classified living organisms into two kingdoms - Plantae and Animalia Artificial system - Correct Answer-includes only one or few morphological (external) features to classify organisms - such as floral parts - sexual sys. of classification Natural System - Correct Answer-include as many morpholigical characteristics as possible at the time of collection. It accounts for both external and internal obersvable features in relation to phylogeny. Thus a it indicates a natural evolutionary relationship. -Bentham and Hooker's class. of plants Phylogenetic system - Correct Answer-mainly takes into account the phylogenetic or evolutionary traits/relationships -Engler and Prantl's -John Hutchinson (the families of flowering plants) - Dobzhansky and Mayr (animals) Two Kingdom classification - Correct Answer-Linneaus classified all organism as plants or animals based on the presence of cell wall.