Biology
Biology
10th Edition
ISBN: 9780321794260
Author: Audesirk, Teresa/ Audesirk
Publisher: Pearson College Div
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Chapter 16, Problem 1FIB
Summary Introduction

Introduction:

The concept of biological species involves species of interbreeding population, which are reproductively isolated from each other. Biological species do not involve exclusively asexual organism.

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Answer to Problem 1FIB

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A species is a group of the population that evolves independently. The biological species concept identifies species on the basis of their reproductive isolation. The biological species concept cannot be applied to species that reproduce asexually.

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A species is a group of individuals who share morphological similarities with a member of same species. Individuals from same species are genetically different from each other thus they evolve independently.

Biological species includes a group of individuals in a population which are reproductively isolated from each other, and this isolation makes a boundary, forming the range of the group. The organism which reproduces by asexual means is not involved in biological species concept, as their mode of reproduction cannot form a range of reproduction in a population.

Conclusion

Biological species is a population of individuals which can interbreed and produce viable offspring.

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