Q. Demonstration of tremendous diversity?

A objective of taxonomy is the assemblage of knowledge gained. This is usually in the form of treatises useful to fellow scientists and to civilisation in general. But the knowledge thus gained is sterile unless it is transferred to others for study. Thus the floras and fauna are published to account for the plants and animals of a given area. Manuals are prepared so that the plants and animal of an area may be more readily identified and named; revisions, and monographs are published so that one may know the extent and delimitations of a particular group and its components. Distributional studies are published so that others may know of range extensions, corrections and interrelationships of the taxa within an are?. All the products of taxonomic research add to the resources and are available to scientists. They are essential to any study of the natural resources of raw materials possibly suited to man's needs in a multiplicity of activities, for example, forest products, medicine, food, ornamentals, agriculture and industry.

A objective is the demonstration of tremendous diversity of the plant and animal world and its relation to man's understanding of evolution. An organised reconstruction of the plant and animal kingdom as a whole can be made only after the inventory of its components has been assembled. After assemblage, charting of degree and character of variation will demonstrate its diversity, and these data be integrated with other facets of evolutionary knowledge to produce a more irate phylogenetic scheme.

Let us summarise the objectives of taxonomy:

1. to inventory the world flora and fauna

2. to provide a method for identification and communication

3. to produce a coherent and universal system of classification

4. to demonstrate the evolutionary implications of plant and animal diversity and

5. to provide a single Latin "scientific" name of every group of plants and animals in the world, both living and fossil.