Question

Potato, tomato, brinjal .in which taxon they differ

Answer 1

Brinjal and potato both belong to same genus as they share some common correlated characters.

They belong to different species because they have

(i) different morphological features.

(ii) reproductive isolation (inability to interbreed).

Answer 2

Answer:

The taxon different in potato, tomato and brinjal is species .

Explanation:

Taxonomic ranks:

• There are seven main taxonomic ranks: kingdom, phylum or division, class, order, family, genus, species.
• Scientific names :

1. Potato: Solanum tuberosum
2. Tomato: Solanum lycopersicum
3. Brinjal: Solanum melongena

• We can see that the genus taxon is same in potato, totmato and brinjal and only differ in the taxon species.

About genus Solanum:

• Solanum is a big and diversified genus of flowering plants that includes three economically important food crops: the potato, tomato, and eggplant (brinjal).
• With roughly 1,500 species, it is the biggest genus in the nightshade family Solanaceae.