Which of the following statements is incorrect?
(I) The most obvious and technically complicated feature of all living organisms is the ability to sense their surroundings.
(II) An isolated metabolic reaction outside the body of an organism, performed in a test tube is neither living nor non-living, but these reactions are surely living reactions.
(III) External and internal structures, along with the structure of cell, developmental process and ecological information of organisms are essential and form the basis of modern taxonomic studies.
(IV) Taxonomic hierarchy includes identification, nomenclature and classification, it takes into account evolutionary relationships between organisms.
(V) All organisms, including plant and animal kingdoms have species as the second last category, these category include related individuals able to produce fertile offspring.
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Statements IV and
are incorrect and can be corrected as
Systematics include identification, nomenclature and classification, systematics takes into account evolutionary relationships between organisms.
All organisms, including plant and animal kingdoms have species as the lowest category. A biological species is a group of organisms that can reproduce with one another in nature and produce fertile off springs. Rest all statements are correct.
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