Advertisements
Advertisements
Question
All humans on earth today may differ widely in their facial features, colour, height, etc. Yet, they belong to a single species Homo sapiens. Give one reason why they are not considered belonging to different species.
Advertisements
Solution
Species means an organism of a particular kind whose members can interbreed among themselves to produce fertile young ones.
All humans on the earth today may differ widely in their facial features, colour, height, etc. Yet, they belong to a single species Homo sapiens because they can interbreed among themselves and produce a normal offspring.
APPEARS IN
RELATED QUESTIONS
Give distinguishing features of plants and animals.
State whether the following statement is true or false. Explain your statement.
Organ of locomotion in amoeba is pseudopodia.
Explain the nutrition in fungi.
Who am I?
I live on decaying organic matter.
What is classification of living organism?
Who proposed the five kingdom system of classification and when?
Pteridophyta do not have
Basic smallest unit of classification is ______.
How can you differentiate a Prokaryotic cell from a Eukaryotic cell?
Cyanobacteria and heterotrophic bacteria have been clubbed together in Eubacteria of kingdom Monera as per the “Five Kingdom Classification” even though the two are vastly different from each other. Is this grouping of the two types of taxa in the same kingdom justified? If so, why?
