Question

• What are the basic definitions of a species and of speciation? How do species concepts relate to species?

Answer 1

Answer - Species - Species is defined as the group of individuals which are very similar to each other and are capable of interbreeding in nature to produce fertile offspring.

Example - Homo sapiens., Here Homo is Genus name and sapiens is species name.

• Speciation - This is an evolutionary process in which new distinct species are formed.

Species Concept - This concept suggests us about reproductive isolation and widely accepted as biological species Concept. This defines that species are classified in terms of interbreeding. This also defines that these individuals are similar to each other within the species because of the gene flow resulting from the interbreeding. Thus these species concept helps in distinguishing or classifying the species.