genera
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In fact, more than 10,000 species have been described in just 83 big genera since the year 2000, which is about 2.5 times the size of the total flora of Ireland.
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
This has likely kept gar genomes so stable that species and even genera whose last common ancestor lived more than 100 million years ago have diverged very little.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 8, 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.
