Read the following statements : (i) It placed together organisms which widely differed in other characters (ii) It brought together the prokaryotic bacteria and $$blue-green$$ algae with other groups which were eukaryotic (iii) It grouped together the unicellular and multicellular organisms (iv) It did not distinguish between heterotrophic and autotrophic organisms (v) It had kingdoms Plantae and Animalia How many of the following statements are true for two kingdom classification system?

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Read the following statements : (i) It placed together organisms which widely differed in other characters (ii) It brought together the prokaryotic bacteria and $$blue-green$$ algae with other groups which were eukaryotic (iii) It grouped together the unicellular and multicellular organisms (iv) It did not distinguish between heterotrophic and autotrophic organisms (v) It had kingdoms Plantae and Animalia How many of the following statements are true for two kingdom classification system?

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In Linnaeus' time a Two Kingdom system of classification with Plantae and Animalia kingdoms was developed that included all plants and animals respectively. This system did not distinguish between the eukaryotes and prokaryotes, unicellular and multicellular organisms and photosynthetic (green$$ $$algae) and $$non-photosynthetic$$ (fungi) organisms.

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