Keshav Bhatia, Academic Content Writer at Edumarz
What is Living?
Characteristics of living things
- Growth and its definition
- Growth in unicellular organisms
- Growth in multicellular organisms
- Reproduction as a characteristic
- Metabolism as a characteristic and the definition of metabolism
- Cellular organisation of the body as a characteristic
- Response to stimulus/Consciousness as a characteristic and their definition
- Defining living organisms better
Diversity in the living world
- Biodiversity
- Nomenclature and identification
- Various organisations for nomenclature
- Binomial nomenclature and Carolus Linnaeus’ contribution
- Rules for Nomenclature
- Classification, taxa and taxonomy
- Study of Systematics
Taxonomic Categories
Taxonomic hierarchies and taxons as units of classification
- Species
- Genus
- Family
- Order
- Class
- Phylum/Division
- Kingdom
Taxonomical aids
- Importance of taxonomical aids
- Herbarium
- Botanical Gardens
- Museums
- Zoological Parks
- Key
- Other aids such as flora, manuals, monographs, and catalogues