If you are given a specimen, what are the steps that you would follow to classify it?
There are some fundamental features that help in the classification of living organisms and the features that can be used in classification are as follows:
1. Level of classification: Cellular, tissue, or organ level.
2. Body cavity: Absent or present
3. Type of body symmetry: Radial or bilateral
4. Type of coelom development: Acoelom, Pseudocoelom and true coelom.
5. Type of true coelom: Enterocoelom and Schizocoelom.