list of genus and species

Both genus and community are formed of many species. But the two differ from each other in some basic characters. Species in a genus have a common ancestry. They occur in different geographical regions and often have no functional relation or interaction amo..

Several disease, pest and drought resistant varieties of wheat, tomato, sugarcane have been evolved by this metho..

IUCN Red List Categories - The IUCN Red List is a catalogue of taxa that are facing the risk of extinction. The red list aims to impart information about the urgency and scale of conservation problems to the public and policy makers. The use of the Red List a..

The wingspans of a few species of butterflies are listed. 90, 35, 30, 35, 60, 37, 60, 18, 20, 70, 65 Which box-and-whisker plot best represents the data? => Plot 3 or Plot 2 or Plot 1 or Plot 4..

He made an attempt to classify living organisms to two kingdoms-the plant kingdom and the animal kingdom. He divided each of these kingdoms into smaller groups called classes. Each class was split into orders. Each order was divided into genera and each genus into many species...

Two parents of known well defined characters belonging to two different species within a genus are crossed to achieve heterosis. Some important hybrids (both inter specific and intra specific) are listed ..

Carolus Linnaeus - The Father of Modern Taxonomy - Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) was a Swedish biologist. He is considered as a pioneer in the field of taxonomy because of two significant contributions. fig. 6.2 -Carolus Linnaeus He made an attempt to classify living organisms to two kingdoms-the pl..

This family is commonly called as 'mustard family'. It includes about 300 genus and about 3700 species. The members have a cosmopolitan distribution. There are around 150 species in Indi..

Division: Angiospermae Class: Dicotyledonae Sub Class: Polypetalae Series: Thalamiflorae Order: Parietales This family is commonly called as 'mustard family'. It includes about 300 genus and about 3700 species. The members have a cosmopolitan distribution. There are around 150 h..

Carl Linnaeus, father of modern botany, was a Swedish naturalist who laid the foundation of modern classification and nomenclature in 1758. He devised a binomial system of nomenclature (naming system) in which an organism is given two names: A generic name (name of genus) which it shares ..