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  Brinjal and potato belong to the same genus Solanum, but to two different species. What defines them as separate species?

Answer:

                  Solanum is the largest genus of flowering plants which includes few economically important plants, e.g., potato, tomato, tobacco and brinjal. All these plants show some common morphological structures related to vegetative and reproductive similarities. So, they have the same common name of genus Solanum,