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colleen colleen
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12 years ago
Why is the biological species concept useful for Eukarya but not meaningful for Archaea and Bacteria?
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12 years ago
A species is an interbreeding population of organisms that is isolated from other interbreeding populations, and this definition generally works well in defining eukaryotic species. However, prokaryotes undergo asexual reproduction and are subject to horizontal gene transfer in the environment, which complicates the definition of a species in Archaea and Bacteria.
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