Why Are Species Important

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The main theme of this article rudimentarily explains the concept of species of any type of ecology. The author wrote the article to create an awareness of endangered species which has an impact on the biological diversity and society. A species is formally defined as an evolutionarily independent population or group of populations. Even though this definition sounds straightforward, it can be very difficult to put into practice. How can evolutionarily independent population be identified in the field? There is no definite answer to this question. Though a definition of species which biologists agree exists, there are frequent disagreements and arguments on how to use different sets of criteria to explain the constitution and identification of species. The author begins by explaining on what constitutes a species and then goes into identifying them. The key arguments used to support the constitution of species include member of a species share reproduction and evolutionary process. If a member of specie reproduce with organisms of other or same species and produce viable offspring, which can survive and successfully reproduce with other organisms. then that organism is said to be specie. A problem with this method of telling whether an organism is specie is that some kinds of non-sexual organisms, such as bacteria and some eukaryotes have been divided into a wide variety of different species. This problem can be eliminated by using the general idea of specie as an evolving unit which also includes the non-sexual organisms. In order to identify the wide variety of specie, two methods, biological species concept and phylogenetic species concept have been proposed. According to the biological species concept, the critical criterion for identification is reproductive isolation. Specifically, if two different populations do not interbreed in nature, or if they fail

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