DENDROLOGY

TREE IDENTIFICATION

IDENTIFICATION KEYS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which organisms are most closely related?
A
Equus caballas (Horse) & Equus burchellii (Zebra)
B
Cyanea artica (Jellyfish) & Ctenodiscus crispatus (Mud Starfish)
C
Naja naja (cobra) & Glycine max (soya bean)
D
Ophiocomina nigra (black brittle star) & Brassica nigra (black mustard)
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -They include rhinoceroses and tapirs, the horse’s closest living relatives.

Detailed explanation-2: -The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature, Eohippus, into the large, single-toed animal of today.

Detailed explanation-3: -equine, one of the mammal family of Equidae (order Perissodactyla) that includes the modern horses, zebras, and asses, as well as more than 60 species known only from fossils.

Detailed explanation-4: -Equus-the genus to which all modern equines, including horses, asses, and zebras, belong-evolved from Pliohippus some 4 million to 4.5 million years ago during the Pliocene.

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