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Chhattisgarh PMT Chhattisgarh PMT Solved Paper-2005

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    A species defined as "the group of actually or potentially inter-breeding natural population producing fertile offspring and reproductive isolated from other groups" The above statement is given by

    A)  Carolus Linnaeus            

    B)  Mayr

    C)  J B Lamarck                       

    D)  Charles Darwin

    Correct Answer: B

    Solution :

    Modem concept of species is biological species concept introduced by Ernst Mayr (1942). He defined species as "the group of actually or potentially inter-breeding natural population producing fertile offspring and reproductively isolated from other groups." The traditional concept of species was given by Linnaeus in Systema Naturae. Species is the basic unit of taxonomy.


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