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प्रश्न
Brinjal and potato belong to the same genus Solanum, but to two different species. What defines them as seperate species?
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उत्तर
“Species is a group of potentially interbreeding groups that are reproductively isolated from other such groups”. Brinjal and potato belong to the same genus Solarium, but to two different species as they are reproductively isolated.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Try to collect all the currently accepted meanings for the word ‘species’. Discuss with your teacher the meaning of species in the case of higher plants and animals on one hand and bacteria on the other:
Define and understand the following term:
Phylum
Name one example of the animal which shows the following characteristics:
Star-shaped body:
Find the odd one out. Give reason.
jellyfish, hydra, sea anemone, butterfly
How are organisms classified?
Which is not an aquatic animal?
Which of the following is not a criterion for classification of living organisms?
Corals are
Write true (T) or false (F)
Starting from Class, Species comes before the Genus.
______ has smallest number of organisms with maximum number of similar characters
Classify the following organisms based on the absence/presence of true coelom (i.e., acoelomate, pseudocoelomate and coelomate)
Spongilla, Sea anemone, Planaria, Liver fluke Wuchereria, Ascaris, Nereis, Earthworm, Scorpion, Birds, Fishes, Horse.
Paired and jointed legs are seen in phylum ______.
Order is a number of related families having common characters placed in an order.
Name the three germ layers.
In the taxonomical hierarchy, the category below the level of order is ______.
Which of the following ‘suffixes’ used for units of classification in plants indicates a taxonomic category of ‘family’?
International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN) has provided a code for classification of plants. Give hierarchy of units of classification botanists follow while classifying plants and mention different ‘Suffixes’ used for the units.
Define a taxon. What is meant by taxonomic hierarchy. Give a flow diagram from the lowest to highest category for a plant and an animal. What happens to the number of individuals and number of shared characters as we go up the taxonomical hierarchy?
Define a taxon.
