Question

Biosystematics aims at

• A. Identification and arrangement of organisms on the basis of their cytological characteristics.
• B. The classification of organisms based on broad morphological characters.
• C. Delimiting various taxa of organisms and establishing their relationships.
• D. The classification of organisms based on their evolutionary history and establishing their phylogeny on the totality of various parameters from all fields of studies.

Answer 1

Answer: (D)

Biosystematics is the study of biological diversity and its origins. It focuses on understanding evolutionary relationships among organisms, species, higher taxa, or other biological entities, such as genes, and the evolution of the properties of taxa including intrinsic traits, ecological interactions, and geographic distributions.