Which do you think is a more basic characteristic for classifying organisms?
(a) the place where they live. ltBRgt (b) the kind of cells they are made of. Why?

Explanation

The more basic characteristic for classying organism is -(b) the kind of cells they are made of.
If the misleading to classify organisms on the basic of the place where they live because many different kinds of organism may live in the same habitat but they do not belong to the group. For example, corals, whales, octopuses, starfish, etc live in hte sea but sea but they differ with each other.