classifying organisms based on common characteristics…

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    • June 10, 2005 at 1:29 pm #1129
      caite
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      What are the main characteristics according to you? 8)

    • June 10, 2005 at 1:38 pm #24181
      victor
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      Hmm…I can’t say for sure because the are many ways to classify organisms. Example, we can classify animals become vertebrates and invertebrates (from their backbone) then from invertebrates we can classify them into protozoans, poriferas, coelenteratas, vermes, arthropodes..etc (from their body structure)
      Well, from the examples above we can see that there are many ways to classify organisms because they have some common thing between each other and eanble us to make a classification for them.. 😉

    • June 10, 2005 at 9:50 pm #24242
      MrMistery
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      Like vitor said, it depends. If you are classifing bacteria or plants the characteristics will be different. Also, the characteristics will vary along with the detail you are clasifying something in

    • June 10, 2005 at 10:52 pm #24277
      b_d_41501
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      I think it is impossible to classify organisms based only on characteristics. I think they should be grouped more by genetic code similarities than anything.

    • June 11, 2005 at 5:26 pm #24352
      MrMistery
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      Genetic material is one of the main characteristics 😉

    • June 11, 2005 at 6:33 pm #24366
      b_d_41501
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      I thought he meant only physical ones.

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