Species
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A 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 o
All adult Eurasian blue tits share the same coloration, unmistakably identifying the morphospecies.
Ernst Mayr proposed the widely used Biological Species Concept of reproductive isolation in 1942.
Palaeontologists are limited to morphological evidence when deciding whether fossil life-forms like these Inoceramus bivalves formed a separate species.
Blackberries belong to any of hundreds of microspecies of the Rubus fruticosus species aggregate.
Mutation
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In biology, a mutation is an alteration in the nucleic acid sequence of the genome of an organism, virus, or extrachromosomal DNA. Mutations result from errors during replication, mitosis, meiosis, or
A red tulip exhibiting a partially yellow petal due to a somatic mutation in a cell that formed that petal
A mutation has caused this moss rose plant to produce flowers of different colours. This is a somatic mutation that may also be passed on in the germline.