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What are the criteria used to classify living things? [Textbook Question -6d]

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Following are the criteria used to classify living things:
a. Plants:

Mode of nutrition.

Similarities and differences in structure.

Presence of flowers or not.

Period of life cycles.

Habitat.

b. Animals:

Cell structure.

Presence of vertebral column.

Method of reproduction.

Habitat.

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