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.
  1. $12.1 \%$
  2. $18.1\%$
  3. $38.1\%$
  4. $8.1\%$

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.

Asked in: NEET 2011 (Screening)

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