Question

If you are given a specimen, what are the steps that you would follow to classify it?

Answer 1

There are some fundamental features that help in the classification of living organisms and the features that can be used in classification are as follows:

1. Level of classification: Cellular, tissue, or organ level.

2. Body cavity: Absent or present

3. Type of body symmetry: Radial or bilateral

4. Type of coelom development: Acoelom, Pseudocoelom and true coelom.

5. Type of true coelom: Enterocoelom and Schizocoelom.