Q.1)Why are living organisms classified?
Q.2)Why are the classification systems changing every now and then?
Q.3)What different criteria would you choose to classify people that you meet often?
Q.4)What do we learn from the identification of individuals and populations?
Q.5)Define a taxon. Give some examples of taxa at different hierarchical levels.
Answers
Answer:
Q.1)Why are living organisms classified?
Q.2)Why are the classification systems changing every now and then?
Q.3)What different criteria would you choose to classify people that you meet often?
Q.4)What do we learn from the identification of individuals and populations?
Q.5)Define a taxon. Give some examples of taxa at different hierarchical levels.
Answer:
5.Each unit or category of classification is termed as a taxon. It represents a rank. For example, the basic level of classification is species, followed by genus, family, order, class, phylum or division, in ascending order. The highest level of classification is known as kingdom.
Explanation:
1.Living organisms are classified mainly to avoid confusion, to make study of organisms easy and learn how various organisms are related to each other. Scientists classified living organisms into different kingdoms, phylum, class, etc
2.Millions of plants, animals, and microorganisms found on earth, have been identified by the scientists while many new species are still being discovered around the world.
3 .What different criteria would you choose to classify people that you meet often? Answer: The different scientific criteria to classify people that we often would be (i) Nomenclature (ii) Classification (iii) Identification (i) Nomenclature is the science of providing distinct and proper names to the organisms.
4. The knowledge of characteristics of an individual or its entire population helps in the identification of similarities and dissimilarities among the individuals of same kind or between different types of organisms.