Question

What are the advantages of classifying the organisms?

Answer 1

Taxonomy is defined as the process of classifying organisms. Modern taxonomic classification system was developed by Carolus Linnaeus.

Complete Answer:
- According to this classification system, earth features different kinds of organisms ranging from minute bacteria to large elephants.
- The organisms are classified into different categories such as – Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species.

The advantages of the classification system for the organisms are as follows –
- This system makes us aware about the given information regarding the plant and animal diversity.
- This system makes it easier to study different organisms.
- It helps in studying the inter-relationship between different organisms.
- It helps in understanding the organism's evolution.
- It helps the environmentalist for developing new methods of plant and animal conservation.

Additional information: The naming of an organism is done as per the rules under binomial nomenclature. The rules are,
- There are two names, the generic and specific epithet.
- The first letter of genus is always capital and the first letter of species is small.
- The genus and species are of latin origin and thus must be italicized when typed.
- When written using pen and paper, they must be written separately and underlined.

Note: There are five major kingdoms as per the Linnaeus mode of classification,
(I) Monera - It consists of prokaryotes
(II) Protista - It consists of single cell organisms
(III) Fungi - It consists of fungus
(IV) Plantae - It consists of plants
(V) Animalia - It consists of animals and humans