Statement-I: The basic requirement for categorization of organisms is the knowledge of the characters of an individual or group of organisms.
Statement-II: This helps in identifying similarities and dissimilarities among individuals of the same kind of organism as well as of other kinds of organisms.

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Statement I is false, II is true

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Taxonomical studies of all known organisms have led to the development of common categories such as kingdom, phylum or division (for plants), class, order, family, genus and species.

All organisms, including those in the plant and animal kingdoms have species as the lowest category. The basic requirement to categorize organisms is the knowledge of the characters of an individual or group of organisms. This helps in identifying similarities and dissimilarities among the individuals of the same kind of organism as well as of other kinds of organisms.

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