NEET BIOLOGY

GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

EVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What do we call the process of dividing living things into different groups based on their evolutionary relationships to each other?
A
Lamarkism
B
natural selection
C
Linnaeus
D
classification
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Answer: Biological classification is the process of dividing living organisms into groups and subgroups.

Detailed explanation-3: -Phylogeny is the evolutionary relationship between organisms through the course of history. The branch of science that deals with study of phylogeny is called phylogenetics.

Detailed explanation-4: -Classification based on evolutionary relationships of organisms is called phylogenetic system of classification.

Detailed explanation-5: -Cladistics is the classification of organisms based on the evolutionary and phylogenetic relationships and it does not take morphological similarities or dissimilarities into account.

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