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[Characteristic] Organism Inheritance [Nature] Most of the animal and plant kingdoms are organized as a deep hierarchy. Animals and plants are organized as families. For example, the cat family contains the lion, cat, tiger etc.
Extremely complex systems will probably never get developed from scratch. Such products would be developed by refining and recombining existing, well tested products. All products based on the same basic products would form a product family.
Anatomy of a Complex Realtime System
Implications for Complex Realtime Systems