Question

If you are given a specimen, what are the steps that you would follow to classify it?​

Answer 1

Various steps considered to classify a specimen are:

(i)Mode of nutrition – It can be autotrophic, holozoic, saprophytic or parasitic.

(ii)Complexity of body structure – Whether the specimen is unicellular or multicellular.

(iii)Presence or absence of membrane bound organelles.

(iv)Body symmetry, i.e., the plane by which organism can be divided into two equal halves.

(v)Presence or absence of coelom, it can be acoelomates, pseudocoelomates, eucoelo- mates.

(vi)Phylogenetic relationship.