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Over half of all known species on earth are insects (from the Latin insectum, which means "cut into sections") The number of current species is estimated between six and ten million, and could represent over 85% of metazoan life forms on the planet. Insects are found in almost every environment, although few insect species live in the ocean.
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Insects are the most numerous species on the earth?
Insects are not a species. Insects are are a class of invertebrates within the arthropod phylum. That is like asking if mammals are the most numerous species. Your question needs to be refined. Are you asking if insects are the most numerous class of animal? Most numerous species of living thing? Or perhaps you are thinking of a specific species such as monarch butterfly (Danausplexippus).
What class of vertebrate has the most species?
Osteichthyes, the bony fish class, has over 30,000 species.
How many speshes of chitmuks are there?
There are 23 different species of chipmunks. Most of the species known are western species of chipmunks. There are 3 distinct chipmunk groups.
What kingdom has the most different known species?
The kingdom with the most different known species is the Animalia kingdom, which includes a vast diversity of organisms, ranging from insects and fish to mammals and birds. Insects alone represent the largest group within this kingdom, with millions of described species. While other kingdoms, such as Plantae and Fungi, also contain numerous species, Animalia is known for its extensive biodiversity. As of now, scientists estimate that there may be millions of undiscovered species yet to be classified within this kingdom.
What is the most effective way to protect species?
The most effective and the only way for protecting species (including human-specie) is to become wise and transition to human-consciousness. Present humankind is living in animal-consciousness, and it is trying to emulate the model of animals for itself. ANSWER The most effective way to preserve species is to drastically reduce the number of the species killing all the others - humans.
What is the most of the living species known to science?
the rattle snake fern has 138 chromosomes
What are the seven levels of classifying living things?
The seven levels of classifying living things, from broadest to most specific, are kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species. This system is known as taxonomy and helps scientists organize and categorize the diversity of life on Earth.
Complete living unit?
The smallest complete living unit known to science is a single cell. The smallest single celled organisms known, mycoplasma, are not much bigger than the very largest viruses. Viruses are not technically considered to be living organisms by most scientists.
What is the scientific name of a single type of living thing?
An organism is an individual living thing. Each organism is categorized as a species, which is the most specific category of classification and means that the organisms in the species can mate and produce viable offspring, as in Homo sapiens (humans).
What are most species in today?
The majority of species on Earth are insects, with estimates ranging from 5 to 10 million species. Mammals, birds, and plants represent a smaller portion of the total number of species, with approximately 5,500 mammal species, 10,000 bird species, and 400,000 plant species known to science.
How do you put Species in a sentence?
Most of the known Rhino species are in West Africa
What is the most useful tool in science?
A healthy living human brain.
Insects are the most numerous species on the earth?
Insects are not a species. Insects are are a class of invertebrates within the arthropod phylum. That is like asking if mammals are the most numerous species. Your question needs to be refined. Are you asking if insects are the most numerous class of animal? Most numerous species of living thing? Or perhaps you are thinking of a specific species such as monarch butterfly (Danausplexippus).
What class of vertebrate has the most species?
Osteichthyes, the bony fish class, has over 30,000 species.
How many animals were the in the time of Jesus?
By the time Jesus was living in nazareth, all species that became stinct in the last milenium were living still but most of the this species were from other regions.
What could be in lake water?
there are many living species in lake water... most are fish. depending on the lake, the species are inevetible
What does a mullet eat?
Most mullet species (there are approximately 80 species) feed on detritus(non living organic material).
