Which of the following is one of the seven basic characteristics used to classify living things?a. possession or lack of lysosomes. b. the presence or absence of hair. c. presence or absence of four limbs. d. ability or inability to do photosynthesis. e. the presence or absence of yellow pigment.

D

Explanation:

Classification in living things can be done using different factors, the system of classifying living thing scientifically is called taxonomy.

The ability of an organism to photosynthesize is one of the main characteristics of classifying.

All green plants, some bacteria and Algae that has chlorophyll content photosynthesize to produce their own food, this makes them less dependent but a primary producer.

This ability to is used to differentiate between photosynthetic organisms and non photosynthetic organisms and also help classify living organism

the answer is d. chordata