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Species
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However, the BSC/) presents significant challenges:
Asexuality: It is inapplicable to organisms reproducing solely asexually (e.g., many bacteria and some plants).
Fossil Record: Past species cannot be tested for reproductive compatibility.
Ring Species: Cases where adjacent populations are mutually interfertile, but populations separated by a distance are not, blur the species boundaries.