Which do you think is a more basic characteristic for classifying organism ?
(a) The place they live
(b) The kind of cells they are made of. Why?

Open in App

Solution

The kind of Cells. Habitat is a place where diverse types of organisms live together. It cannot be used for classifying organisms. Cells have specific structure, prokaryotic in monerans and eukaryotic in the remaining organisms. Organisms are unicellular in protista and multicellular in others. A cell wall is absent in animals. Cell wall contains chitin in fungi and cellulose in plants. Plastids occur in plant cells. They are absent in animal cells.

Suggest Corrections

Similar questions

Which do you think is a more basic characteristic for classifying organisms?

(a) The place where they live.

(b) The kind of cells they are made of. Why?

which do you think is amore basic characteristic for classifiying organisms?

a) the place where they live.

b) the kind of cellls they are made of .

give a reason for your answer

Whales and Dolphins are underwater for a considerable amount of their lives. By what means do you think they breathe?

Join BYJU'S Learning Program