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Plant Classification

The document discusses the classification of plants, which involves organizing them into groups based on shared characteristics and arranging these groups into a hierarchical system. It outlines the five kingdom classification system proposed by R.H. Whittaker, including Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia, as well as the seven divisions of scientific classification: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species. Additionally, it notes that classification can vary, particularly regarding algae, which some biologists place in the Protista kingdom while others consider them part of the plant kingdom.

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Plant Classification

The document discusses the classification of plants, which involves organizing them into groups based on shared characteristics and arranging these groups into a hierarchical system. It outlines the five kingdom classification system proposed by R.H. Whittaker, including Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia, as well as the seven divisions of scientific classification: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species. Additionally, it notes that classification can vary, particularly regarding algae, which some biologists place in the Protista kingdom while others consider them part of the plant kingdom.

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Classification of Plants

• Classification is “organization of knowledge”. It is also a means of creating an


organized sequence of information about organism/objects, etc.
• Classification is thus the placing of a plant or groups of plants in groups or
categories according to a particular plan or sequence.
• Classification is the arrangement of organisms into groups having common
characteristics.
• These groups are then arranged according to a system.
• For example similar species of flowering plants are placed into a genus (plural,
genera); similar genera are grouped into families; families with common features
are arranged into orders, orders into classes and classes into divisions.
• Classification results in the placing of organisms into a hierarchy of ranks or
categories such as species, genera, and families and so on.
• Each group has the characteristics of the level above it, but has some distinguishing
features. The further down the scale you go, the more minor the differences
become, until you end up with a classification which applies to only one plant.

Five kingdom system classification of R H Whittaker are:


• Kingdom Monera
• Kingdom Protista
• Kingdom Fungi (Mycota)
• Kingdom Plantae (Metaphyta)
• Kingdom Animalia (Metazoa)

Scientific Classification.
Classification, or taxonomy, is a system of categorizing living things.
There are seven divisions in the system:
1) Kingdom; 2) Phylum or Division; 3) Class; 4) Order; 5) Family; 6) Genus; 7)
Species.

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• All members of the plant kingdom can be classified based on their morphological
differences.
• Some biologists classify algae in the Protista kingdom, while other plant biologists
would classify them as the simplest member of the plant kingdom.

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