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Lesson: Chapter 13 — The Living World

13.1. Why we classify living things 5 of 8

Question 5

What is the main weakness of an artificial classification?

The right answer is the one marked above.

It does not represent the evolutionary relationships of organisms. So organisms that evolution separated long ago can end up in the same group.

Birds and insects falling together under "animals with wings" is the clearest example — the two are a very long way apart.

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