Class 11 / Botany / The Living World / Taxonomic Categories

Need of Classification

Classification Since it is nearly impossible to study all the living organisms, it is necessary to devise some means to make this possible. This process is classification. Classification is the pro

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Class 11 / Botany / The Living World / Taxonomic Categories

Taxonomic Categories

Taxonomic Category   Classification is not a single-step process but involves a hierarchy of steps in which each step represents a rank or category. Since the category is a

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Class 11 / Botany / The Living World / Taxonomic Categories

Species, Genus and Family

Species Taxonomic studies consider a group of individual organisms with fundamental similarities as a  species. One should be able to distinguish one species from the other closely relate

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Class 11 / Botany / The Living World / Taxonomic Categories

Order, Class, Phylum and Kingdom

Order You have seen earlier that categories like species, genus, and families are based on a number of similar characters. Generally, order and other higher taxonomic categories are identified base

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