CBSE-IX-Science
02: 2-Diversity in Living Organisms
- #2How would you choose between two characteristics to be used for developing a hierarchy in classification?Ans : We would choose the characteristic related to their structure and function that will help developing a hierarchy from one level to the next level. Like arthropods are organisms with jointed appendages but among arthropods insects and spiders make to separate groups having peculiar characteristics to define them. Hence we can make the hierarchy in classification by selecting general to specific characteristics.