Diversity in Living Organisms — Science STD 9 — Question
Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 9ScienceDiversity in Living Organisms5 Marks
Question
Biological classification is a dynamic and ever-evolving phenomenon. Justify with two examples.
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Answer
Biological classification keeps changing with our understanding of life forms. Initially, new characters were taken by Aristotle, Theophrastus, John Ray and Linnaeus. Linnaeus divided plants on the basis of sex organs only.
As more and more knowledge gathered for delimitation of taxa, the ways for natural system of classification became clear.
This can be understood by following examples
Two kingdom classification was replaced by three kingdom classification when Haeckel (1866) proposed the kingdom of Protista.
It Was converted into four kingdom classification by Copeland when he proposed the kingdom-Monera.
Whittaker in 1969 proposed five kingdom classification.
As the information about biochemistry of archaebacteria gathered, Woese raised another.
kingdom, Archaea.
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