India is one of the twelve megadiversity countries with ______ of genetic resources of the world.
India is one of the twelve megadiversity countries with ______ of genetic resources of the world.
$12.1 \%$
$18.1\%$
$38.1\%$
$8.1\%$
Solution
The total number of species estimated is about 1.74 million. Out of these, the number of known species in India is $1,42,000$ or roughly $8.1 \%$ of the total though India has only $2.4 \%$ land area. India with about 45000 species of plants and twice as many species of animals is one of the 12 megadiversity countries of the world.