Answer: E) flowering plants
Explanation:
The biological species is a group of individuals that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring to the exclusion of others. Apart from the fact that the biological concept is a time consuming mating process, the biological species concept may not work out due to incomplete separation of evolutionary lineages especially in plants but also in Animals.
While The morphospecies concept is the oldest species concept and uses differences in morphological characters to distinguish species. the morphospecies concept has been applied under the assumption that similar to identical morphological characters would reflect relatedness and therefore result in a natural systematics.
Morphological or classical species concept of readily recognized and morphologically defined species is practical and efficient system for information retrieval in most of the flowering plants.
Answer:
The correct option is E ( flowering plants).
Explanation:
Morphological specie concepts are concepts that uses the differences in morphological characters to distinguish species.
Biological species concept is the concept that describes species as group of individuals that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring. This was invented in 1942 by Ernst Mayr. Although this concept is considered optimal for definition of species, it has limitations which includes:
- It can't be used to classify plants due to incomplete separation of evolutionary lineages. Therefore flowering plants require being defined using the Morphospecies Concept instead of the Biological Species Concept.
- it can't be applied in organism which reproduce only asexually ( that is, their sexual reproduction is unknown).
