В документации сказано, что "корень" в Objective-C один:
When an Objective-C object needs to
work with an instance of another
class, it is expected that the other
class offers certain basic
characteristics and behavior. For this
reason, Objective-C defines a root
class from which the vast majority of
other classes inherit, called
NSObject. When one object encounters
another object, it expects to be able
to interact using at least the basic
behavior defined by the NSObject class
description.
When you’re defining your own classes,
you should at a minimum inherit from
NSObject. In general, you should find
a Cocoa or Cocoa Touch object that
offers the closest functionality to
what you need and inherit from that.
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ProgrammingWithObjectiveC/DefiningClasses/DefiningClasses.html