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Species

A species (pl. species) is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. It can be defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. Other ways of defining species…

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Species

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Edges226
Triples276
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.008811
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Species

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related to Fixed species · 15
Species → Aristotelian, At, Carl Linnaeus, Early Modern, English, European, God, However, In, John Ray, Like, Many, Swedish, This, When
related to Identification codes · 15
Species → Biotechnology Information, Genes, Genomes, Homo, HUMAN, Integrated Taxonomic Information System, ITIS, KEGG, Kyoto Encyclopedia, National Center, NCBI, Taxonomy, The LSID, UniProt, With
related to Ring species · 15
Species → America, Arctic, Asia, Ensatina, Himalayas, However, Larus, North, NorwayA, Opposite, Phylloscopus, Proposed, Ring, Seven, Such
related to Typological or morphological species · 13
Species → Crovello, Drosophila, However, In, It, Linnaeus, Modern-day, Peter Sneath, Robert, Sokal, The, Theodore, This
related to Extinction · 12
Species → Another, Cretaceous, Devonian, Earth, Earth's, It, Mass, Ordovician, Permian, Some, The, Triassic
related to Phylogenetic or cladistic species · 12
Species → Bovidae, DNA, For, However, IUCN, Molecular, Others, The, Therefore, Unlike, Versions, Yet
related to Common and scientific names · 11
Species → Africa, America, Another, Asia, Felidae, Felis, In, Latin America, Panthera, Puma, The
related to External links · 11
Species → Czech, English, French, German, LifeEuropean Species Names, Linnaean, PhilosophyVisualTaxa, Stanford Encyclopedia, The, Wikimedia FoundationBarcoding, Wikispecies
related to Definition · 10
Species → Biologists, Early, Ernst Mayr, John Wilkins, Later, Linnaeus, Many, Mayden, Mayr's, Wilkins
related to Evolutionary species · 10
Species → An, General Lineage Concept, George Gaylord Simpson, Kevin, Mayden, Queiroz's, They, This, Wiley, Willi Hennig's

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Speciesis agroup of organisms in which individuals conform to certain fixed properties0.90text
Speciesis agroup of sexually reproducing organisms that recognise one another as potential mates0.90text
Speciesis amost inclusive population of individuals having the potential for phenotypic cohesion through intrinsic cohesion mechanisms0.90text
Speciesis aset of organisms adapted to a particular set of resources0.90text
Speciesis aconnected series of neighbouring populations0.90text
Linnaeus had no option but to describe what they sawinstance ofEarly taxonomists0.80text
iNaturalist use this conceptinstance ofModern-day field guides and identification websites0.80text
Rob DeSalle have expressed concern that classical taxonomyinstance ofscientists0.80text
DNA barcodinginstance ofscientists0.80text
which they consider a misnomerinstance ofscientists0.80text
need to be reconciledinstance ofscientists0.80text
as they delimit species differentlyinstance ofscientists0.80text

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