DENDROLOGY AND SOCIETY
PLANT CLASSIFICATION
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Question
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To sort them by color
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To sort them in groups based on similar characteristics
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To show how animals and plants are different.
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To show how animals and plants are the same.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Organisms are usually grouped together based on their unique characteristics. The classification of an organism often provides useful information about its evolutionary history and which other organisms are related to it.
Detailed explanation-2: -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 and are based on different criteria.
Detailed explanation-3: -Classifying organisms helps to understand the relationship, similarities, and differences between the individual type of organisms. It simplifies the understanding of their characteristics.
Detailed explanation-4: -In biology, taxonomy (from Ancient Greek (taxis) ‘arrangement’, and- (-nomia) ‘method’) is the scientific study of naming, defining (circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics.