Do you know?The term "Biodiversity" was coined by " Walter G. Rosen" in 1986.
The warm and humid tropical regions of the earth between the tropic of Capricorn and the tropic of Cancer, are rich in diversity of plant and animal life. This is called the region of "megadiversity".
There are 12 megadiversity centres in the world, which are rich in biodiversity.
Countries are - Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, Zaire, Madagascar, Australia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia and India.
Classification is the arrangement of organisms into groups and subgroups on the basis of their similarities and dissimilarities.
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Taxonomy: The science dealing with identification, nomenclature and classification of organisms is called taxonomy systematics.
Term "Taxonomy" was given by A.P. de Candolle.Father of Modern Taxonomy: Carolus Linnaeusor.
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