The main difference between Genus and Species is that Genus is a rank in the classification of the organism, below Family and above Species, and Species is the taxonomic unit, ranking below a Genus. A species is a group of populations in which genes are exchanged through the way of interbreeding or matting.
Genus
(Biology) A taxonomic category ranking below a family and above a species and designating a group of species that are presumed to be closely related and usually exhibit similar characteristics. In a scientific name, the genus name is capitalized and italicized, for example, Ovis for sheep and related animals.
Species
(Biology) A group of closely related organisms that are very similar to each other and are usually capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. The species is the fundamental category of taxonomic classification, ranking below a genus or subgenus. Species names are represented in binomial nomenclature by an uncapitalized Latin adjective or noun following a capitalized genus name, as in Ananas comosus, the pineapple, and Equus caballus, the horse.
Genus
(Logic) A class of objects divided into subordinate species having certain common attributes.
Species
(Logic) A class of individuals or objects grouped by virtue of their common attributes and assigned a common name; a division subordinate to a genus.
Genus
A class, group, or kind with common attributes.
Species
(Chemistry) A set of atoms, molecules, ions, or other chemical entities that possess the same distinct characteristics with respect to a chemical process or measurement.
Genus
A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.
All magnolias belong to the genus Magnolia.
Other species of the genus Bos are often called cattle or wild cattle.
There are only two genera and species of seadragons.
Species
A kind, variety, or type
"No species of performing artist is as self-critical as a dancer" (Susan Sontag).
Genus
A taxon at this rank.
Species
The outward appearance or form of the Eucharistic elements that is retained after their consecration.
Genus
A group with common attributes.
Species
Either of the consecrated elements of the Eucharist.
Genus
A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph.
Species
Type or kind. race.}}
The male species
A new species of war
Genus
(semantics) Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.
Species
A group of plants or animals having similar appearance.
This species of animal is unique to the area.
Genus
(music) A type of tuning or intonation, used within an Ancient Greek tetrachord.
Species
A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below genus; a taxon at that rank.
Genus
A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.
Species
A particular type of atom, molecule, ion or other particle.
Genus
An assemblage of species, having so many fundamental points of structure in common, that in the judgment of competent scientists, they may receive a common substantive name. A genus is not necessarily the lowest definable group of species, for it may often be divided into several subgenera. In proportion as its definition is exact, it is natural genus; if its definition can not be made clear, it is more or less an artificial genus.
Species
(mineralogy) A mineral with a unique chemical formula whose crystals belong to a unique crystallographic system.
Genus
A general kind of something;
Ignore the genus communism
Species
An image, an appearance, a spectacle.
Genus
(biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species
Species
(obsolete) The image of something cast on a surface, or reflected from a surface, or refracted through a lens or telescope; a reflection.
I cast the species of the Sun onto a sheet of paper through a telescope.
Species
Visible or perceptible presentation; appearance; something perceived.
Species
(Christianity) Either of the two elements of the Eucharist after they have been consecrated.
Species
Coin, or coined silver, gold, or other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.
Species
A component part of compound medicine; a simple.
Species
Visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible percept received by the imagination; an image.
Wit, . . . the faculty of imagination in the writer, which searches over all the memory for the species or ideas of those things which it designs to represent.
Species
A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes, and extending to fewer individuals. Thus, man is a species, under animal as a genus; and man, in its turn, may be regarded as a genus with respect to European, American, or the like, as species.
Species
In science, a more or less permanent group of existing things or beings, associated according to attributes, or properties determined by scientific observation.
Species
A sort; a kind; a variety; as, a species of low cunning; a species of generosity; a species of cloth.
Species
Coin, or coined silver, gold, or other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.
There was, in the splendor of the Roman empire, a less quantity of current species in Europe than there is now.
Species
A public spectacle or exhibition.
Species
A component part of a compound medicine; a simple.
Species
The form or shape given to materials; fashion or shape; form; figure.
Species
(biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed
Species
A specific kind of something;
A species of molecule
A species of villainy
Genus and Species are both the taxonomic ranks in the biological classification of an organism. The organism from a separate Genus cannot produce offspring that are capable of reproduction. Species is the largest group of organisms whose subspecies can breed and reproduce offspring which are able to reproduce as well. Genus comes just above the species in an organism’s taxonomic hierarchy whereas a species is the lowest and final level of the classification. Genus is composed of any number of species, but a Species is comprised of any number of subspecies having similar features. In the scientific classification of any organism first part of the name is called generic name while the second part of the name is known as a species name. The genus contains a large number of the organism while species contains less number of the organism. Genus is composed of different species while species is composed of different subspecies.
Genus is a rank in the taxonomic hierarchy that includes a large number of closely related species. Genus is a singular noun, and in plural form, it is “genera.” Organisms from separate genera cannot produce offspring that is capable of reproduction. A genus comprised of more than one species and these species have similar characteristics. The genus name of a specific individual is written in italics and is the first word of the scientific name of an organism. The first letter of the genus name is always capitalized.
Species are the most basic and lowest level in a taxonomic hierarchy in which the group of organisms having similar features or attributes and capable of producing fertile offsprings. Individuals of the same species have identical chromosome counts; it means that they have an identical structure and form. Organisms in a species usually share the same features intrinsic only to their species. In taxonomy, any number of species may comprise a single genus, which makes it the ancestor of the species. The name of the species is the second part of an organism’s scientific name. It is generally written in italics and lowercase letters.
