Multiple choice

The phylogeny and interrelationships between the taxa, based on the number and arrangement of chromosomes is called

  1. chemotaxonomy

  2. cytotaxonomy

  3. karyotaxonomy

  4. chromotaxonomy
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Explanation

 karyotaxonomy, a branch of systematics that studies the structure of the cell nucleus in the various groups of organisms (taxa) in order to determine the extent of their phylogenetic kinship and to use the results to construct the natural system of a given group of organisms.

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