Taxonomy Is the Subdiscipline in Biology That Classifies Living Organisms;

question 98

Multiple Choice

Taxonomy is the subdiscipline in biology that classifies living organisms; at the present time

• A)all living organisms have been discovered, named, and their relationships to other organisms described.
• B)humans have just finished a complete count of the number of species on Earth.
• C)the diversity of organisms on Earth is not completely known and estimates of the number of unknown species vary 10-fold.
• D)there is no consensus regarding the appropriate classification strategy for the currently known organisms.

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