LIFE SCIENCE

OBJECTIVE LIFE SCIENCE

EVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Taxonomy is ____
A
The study of life
B
the science of naming and classifying animals
C
the evolutionary history of species
D
the sequence in which different groups evolved
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Taxonomy is the science of naming, describing and classifying organisms and includes all plants, animals and microorganisms of the world.

Detailed explanation-2: -Taxonomy is the study of relationships between living things and the formal classification of organisms into groups based upon those hypothesized relationships. Organisms are classified based upon their similarities and differences.

Detailed explanation-3: -The major taxonomic ranks are Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species. These ranks have been used to describe and understand major animal groups for a long time, and many people are taught about animal natural history through these traditional ranks.

Detailed explanation-4: -taxonomy, in a broad sense the science of classification, but more strictly the classification of living and extinct organisms-i.e., biological classification. The term is derived from the Greek taxis (“arrangement”) and nomos (“law”).

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