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CBSE - Biology - The Living World

The Living World

Short Answer Type NCERT Exampler

International Code of Botanical nomenclature (ICBN) has provided a code for classification of plants. Give hierarchy of units of classification botanists follow while classifying plants and mention different ‘Suffixes’ used for the units.

As per the ICBN, various hierarchies of units for classifying plants and suffixes used for such hierarchies are as follows:

Kingdom  - Plantae 

Division - Phyta 

Class  - Ae 

Order - Ales 

Family - Eae or – Ceae

Genus - Contains first name of organism which usually has Latin origin and written in italics 

Species - Contains second term of the scientific name which usually has Latin origin and written in italics.  

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