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प्रश्न
What is the difference between flora, fauna and vegetation? Eichhornia crassipes is called as an exotic species while Rauwolfia serpentina is an endemic species in India. What do these terms exotic and endemic refer to?
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उत्तर
Flora is a plant life that occurs in a particular region or time.
Fauna is the total number of animals found in a particular region or time
Vegetation is a term used for plant forms which do not include particular taxa or botanical characteristics
Exotic species is any species of a plant living in any other place except its native and endemic species which are restricted to a particular area.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Give some examples of taxa at different hierarchical levels.
Define and understand the following term:
Phylum
Define and understand the following term:
Class
Define and understand the following term:
Order
Define and understand the following term:
Genus
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
______ is a cold blooded animal.
Which is not an aquatic animal?
Corals are
Write true (T) or false (F)
Starting from Class, Species comes before the Genus.
Write names of few thallophytes. Draw a labelled diagram of Spirogyra.
Animals belonging to phylum protozoa reproduce by fission.
Name the three germ layers.
As we go from species to kingdom in a taxonomic hierarchy, the number of common characteristics ______.
Genus represents ______.
Match the following and choose the correct option:
| Column I | Column II |
| A. Family | i. Tuberosum |
| B. Kingdom | ii. Polymoniales |
| C. Order | iii. Solanum |
| D. Species | iv. Plantae |
| E. Genus | v. Solanacea |
