•Helps in identifying all living organism
•Helps in grouping living organisms with similar characteristics and •separating those with different features
•Helps in understanding the evolutionary relationship between different organisms;/phylogenetic relationships
•Helps in arranging information about living organisms in an orderly manner to avoid chaos and confusion that would arise if this were to be done arbitrarily;
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(i) Name the type of response exhibited by the climbing stem.
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