Question

state the merits of whittaker's method of classification​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Whittaker's method of classification is more scientific and natural because of the following merits:

1) It is the most accepted modern classificationsystem due to the phylogenetic placing of different living organisms.

2) In this system separation of prokaryotes into an independent kingdom is justifiable.

Answer 2

Robert Harding Whittaker (1920 - 1980) was an American Ecologist. In 1969 he divided living organisms into 5 groups

For the Classification Whittaker considered following criteria

1. Complexity of cell structure: Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic

2. Complexity of Organisms: Unicellular and Multicellular

3. Mode of Nutrition: Plants - Autotrphic - Photosynthetic, Fungi - Saprophytic - Absorption from dead organisms, Animals - Heterotrophic and ingestive

4. Lifestyle: Plants - Producers, Animal - Consumers, Fungi - Decomposers

5. Phylogenetic relationship - Prokaryotic to Eukaryotic, Unicellular to Multicellular

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