Biology
Biology
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ISBN: 9781259188121
Author: Peter Stiling, Robert Brooker, Linda Graham, Eric Widmaier
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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To determine:  The reasons that insects are most species-rich taxon on earth.

Introduction: Insects belong to class invertebrates of phylum arthropod. These members possess specialized chitinous exoskeleton and are present in more numbers as compared to any other group of organisms on earth.

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