The Ordering of Organisms into Categories, Such as Orders or Families

question 57

Multiple Choice

The ordering of organisms into categories, such as orders or families, is termed

• A)evolution.
• B)classification.
• C)parallelism.
• D)analogy.
• E)generalization.

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