a - Orderly arrangement of living organisms into various groups according to their
similarities.
b - rhizoids(e.g. mosses)
- frond (e.g. ferns)
- roots e.g. taproot, fibrous roots, modified roots
- flowers - leaves
- buds
- seeds
Type of leaf venation
Type of leaf arrangement
Number of cotyledons
Type of stem
Type of leaf arrangement
Type of flower arrangement
c - horns e.g. cattle, goat, sheep, deer, gazelle etc
- hooves e.g. cattle, sheep, donkey
- mammary glands e.g. cattle, dog, sheep, cat
- hair e.g. human, cat
- Shell e.g. snail, Tortoise
- spines e.g. hedge hog, porcupine
• Tentacles in hydra
• Body covering- feathers, scales, hair or fur
• Shells in snails
• Wings in birds
• Proglotids in tapeworms
• Mammary glands in mammals
• Locomotory structures
• Body pigmentation
Presence of mammary glands.
Number of jointed appendages
Number of body parts
Mode of reproduction
Body cover
Symmetry
Types of skeleton.
d - Placing/grouping living organisms into correct groups called taxa
- Identification
- arrange information about living organisms into orderly and sequential manner i.e.
it is easy to study organisms in groups
-helps in understanding evolutionary relationships
- monitoring disappearance and appearance of organisms i.e. predict characteristics of
organisms
e - Kingdom (largest unit)
- Phylum (animals)/division (plants)
- Class
- Order
- Family
- Genus
- Species(smallest unit)
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