The Living World Question 24
24. Biosystematics aims at
(a) identification and arrangement of organisms on the basis of their cytological characteristics
(b) the classification of organisms based on broad morphological characters
(c) delimiting various taxa of organisms and establishing their relationships
(d) the classification of organisms based on their evolutionary history and establishing their phylogeny on the totality of various parameters from all fields of studies
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Answer : d
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(d) Biosystematics is the study of diversity of organism and all their comparative and evolutionary relationships. Biosystematics is the science through which life forms are discovered, identified, described, named, classified and catalogued, with their diversity, life histories, living habits, roles in an ecosystem, and spatial and geographical distributions recorded.
