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A family has four genera, with 6, 3, 9 and 2 species.
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A family has four genera, with , , and species. How many species are there in the family? What fraction of them is in the largest genus?
Need a reminder? The key ideaShow
The ranks from the smallest: species, genus, family, order, class, phylum (division in plants) and kingdom. A group at any rank is a taxon. Going up, a group holds more organisms that share fewer features. A species is a group with fundamental similarities, whose members can breed and have fertile young.
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Step 1. Species. species.
Step 2. The fraction. .
Answer: species; of them are in the largest genus.
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