Necessity of Animal Classification

 NECESSITY OF CLASSIFICATION: 

         With the help of classification we can learn scientifically with less labour and time about the plants and animals of the world.'

 

               When the classification of an organism (plant/animal) and the identifying characters of the taxa of that classification are known, we can easily get an idea about the features of that particular organism.

 

           Unfamiliar organism can easily be marked and identified by comparative studies of the similar and dissimilar characteristics. Harmful and beneficial organisms can be identified.

 

Through comparative studies, particularly of the structural characteristics of any plant or animal, placing that organism under a phylum, class, order, family; genus and species is the object of classification. Species is the unit and lowermost taxonomic catego