What are species?
Is a group of organism capable of producing offspring. According to this definition, a specie is the largest gene pool that exist under natural conditions. You can judged the similarities of species base on physical characteristics and if its possible by their DNA sequence. All species are given two part names, the generic name and the specific name. John Ray was the first one to give a biological definition to the term species, in 1686.
Meet Panthera tigris tigris - Bengal Tiger
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