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Write down two disadvantages of two kingdom classification.

Disadvantages of two kingdom classification are:

(i) This system did not distinguish between the eukaryotes and prokaryotes, unicellular and multicellular organisms and photosynthetic (green algae) and non-photosynthetic (fungi) organisms.


(ii) There are some organism which neither fall into plant nor animal kingdom like Lichens.


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