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What is the significance of systematics in biological classification?

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It deals only with assigning names to species. It also considers evolutionary relationships among organisms. Correct It classifies organisms only according to their external appearance. It excludes identification and classification.

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Systematics includes identification, nomenclature and classification, and also takes evolutionary relationships among organisms into account.

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