Question

1. Define the Kingdom Plantae before and after the impact of Whittaker, Margulis, and Schwartz (1969-1988). How has the change in classification schemes impacted the study of biology? Which of these two views is more consistent with the view of Marine Botany? Why?

Answer 1

In 1967 , Whittaker introduced five kingdom classification system.It was based on the levels of organization and the principal modes of nutrition. in 1988 Margulis and Schwartz modified his five kingdom system. They considered genetics along cellular organization and mode of nutrition in classification

It impacted study of biology as by providing more detail and spearate phylums and families for different species thus making it easy for analyzing ancestors and how two species are closely related. Moreover tracing any species have become by five kingdom classification.

Marine botany is the study of aquatic plants and algae that live in seawater of the open ocean and the littoral zone, along shorelines of the intertidal zone, and in brackish water of estuaries.

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