Biology

Museum

The institution that cares for a collection of organisms artifacts and other objects such as artistic, historical, cultural or scientific…

Morphological Species

Characterization of a species by external features and its body shape Morphological Species Explanation This concept is applied to both…

Lichens

Lichen is a composite organisms that arises by the combination of algae (Phycobiont) or cyanobacteria with fungi (Mycobiont) in a…

Lectotype

A specimen chosen as the type of a species or subspecies if the author of the name fails to designate…

Kingdom

Kingdom is the highest taxonomic rank just below domain

Isotype

The duplicate of the holotype is known as Isotype

In-situ Conservation

In-situ conservation of genetic resources in natural populations of plant or animal species, such as forest genetic resources in natural…

Holotype

When the species was formally described it is based on a single physical example of an organism known

Habitat Fragmentation

Discontinuities emergence (habitat). This is causing population fragmentation and ecosystem decay

Genus

Taxonomic rank used in the biological classification Genus Explanation The genus name forms the first part of the binomial species…