What is biological classification what are roles of classification?

Answer 1

Biological classification is a form of grouping plants or organisms that are extinct or living into groups and subgroups based on various similarities in them.

Classifications help us in understanding, studying and identifying plants and animals on the basis of their evolutionary relationships.

Answer 2

Was trying to figure what you meant by "roles" of classification. Just hit me that you may have meant to type "rules" of classification? The rules for classifying and naming animal species are many, and are very precisely laid out in a document called the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, which scientists usually refer to as the ICZN, to avoid becoming tongue-tied. This document is prepared and regularly updated by a body of scientists known as the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, also referred to as the ICZN. Here is their website if you are interested:

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/iczn/

For the classification of plants there is a similar commission, but I'm less familiar with it because I'm a zoologist. Each commission is indepent of the other, so the rules for naming and classifying new species of plants can be different from the rules for classifying animals.

One rule is that no two animals can have the same scientific name. The botanists have the same rule for plants. However, there is no rule that prevents an animal and a plant from having the same scientific name. I don't know of any plant that has exactly the same scientific name (genus name + species name) as an animal, but many genus names and some family names are found in both the animal kingdom and the plant kingdom. For example, in the plant kingdom "Ficus" is the genus name of the fig tree, while in the animal kingdom "Ficus" is a genus of marine snails that have shells shaped like a fig!

Answer 3

Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. As for roles classification are know for, there isn't any, except to understand why organisms are not all the same and what sets us apart from everything else.

Answer 4

One of the oldest method to share knowledge's!
You belong to yours family. Your father give an chromosome and this in connection with Mather chromosome give an unique combination named YOU! or an class. When will have children will create an subclass that belong to your father!
So somebody that know something about your father know something about your children!
We are human and have limited memory!

Answer 5

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