What is species? Give its main features ?
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All animals are eukaryotic, multicellular organisms, and most animals have complex tissue structure with differentiated and specialized tissue. Animals are heterotrophs; they must consume living or dead organisms since they cannot synthesize their own food and can be carnivores, herbivores, omnivores, or parasites.
A group of organisms having many characteristics in common and ranking below a genus.
Organisms that reproduce sexually and belong to the same species interbreed and produce fertile offspring.
Species names are usually written lower case and in italics, as rex in Tyrannosaurus rex.
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✨A species is a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding. The species is the principal natural taxonomic unit, ranking below a genus and denoted by a Latin binomial, e.g. Homo sapiens.
✨Organisms that reproduce sexually and belong to the same species interbreed and produce fertile offspring. Species names are usually written lower case and in italics, as rex in Tyrannosaurus rex.