1. Tardigrade
  2. Question
  3. Biology
  4. Read carefully the below given statements and findout the correct statement(s): (a) Fungi, Spirogyra, protonema of mosses all easily multiply by fragmentation. (b) In majority of higher animals and lower plants growth and reproduction are mutually exclusive events. (c) Mule does not reproduce so reproduction can not be characterised as characteristic feature of living organisms. (d) Each different kind of plant or animal or organism represents a species.

Q. Read carefully the below given statements and findout the correct statement(s):
(a) Fungi, Spirogyra, protonema of mosses all easily multiply by fragmentation.
(b) In majority of higher animals and lower plants growth and reproduction are mutually exclusive events.
(c) Mule does not reproduce so reproduction can not be characterised as characteristic feature of living organisms.
(d) Each different kind of plant or animal or organism represents a species.

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Solution:

Further, there are many organisms which do not reproduce (mules, sterile worker bees, infertile human couples, etc). Hence. reproduction also cannot be an all-inclusive defining characteristic of living organisms. Of course, no non-living object is capable of reproducing or replicating by itself.