genera
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The "big plant genera" form a significant proportion of both global and Irish plant diversity, and are of disproportionate importance for both human nutrition and planetary health.
From Science Daily • May 29, 2024
In the end, the team used data from about 60 percent of all modern genera of plants.
From New York Times • May 11, 2024
Using this method, the team sequenced part of the nuclear genomes from about 8000 genera of angiosperms—about 60% of all flowering plants on Earth—and compared 353 of their genes.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 23, 2024
The subfamilies are major subdivisions of the family, while the tribes and subtribe can contain one or more of genera, which is the classification level just above the species.
From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2024
According to current estimates, within that short interval, North America lost thirty-four out of its forty-seven genera of large mammals.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
