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Fri 10 Jun, 2011 11:49 am
I want to know that the list of connecting link either in botany or in zoology. like platypus is connecting link b/w animal & mammals.
@Swati,
Mammals are animals........
@Swati,
Linnaean Classification (taxonomy) of living things is pretty basic.
Here's a Wiki on
Classification that's pretty good unless the Sarah Palin Wiki re-writers of history and science have attacked.
The animal kingdom has 7 levels of classification, (BTW platypus is a mammal)--Botany uses a different taxonomy.
Linnaean taxonomy of Duck Billed Platypus
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Monotremata
Family:Ornithorhynchidae
Genus:Ornithorhynchus (Blumenbach, 1800)
Species:O. anatinus
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