{"id":13898,"date":"2023-08-10T07:26:22","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T01:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13898"},"modified":"2025-04-02T08:13:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T02:43:38","slug":"what-is-takakia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-takakia\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Takakia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Takakia:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>rare genus of moss <\/strong>that adapted over millions of years to life at high altitudes.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Appearance: <\/strong>When seen from a distance, it looks like a later of moss or green algae on the rocks where it grows. But closer inspection would reveal slender turf around one centimetre in length with an arrangement of short, finger-like leaves.<\/li>\n<li>It is a genus that only has two species (<strong>T. lepidozioides and T. ceratophylla ) <\/strong>and both of them are found together only in the Tibetan Plateau.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It has developed the ability to survive frost, life-threatening UV radiation and other hazardous conditions.<\/li>\n<li>It combines features found in mosses, liverworts and green algae.<\/li>\n<li>It is a moss that separated from other mosses 390 million years ago, not long after the first land plants evolved.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h3>Key facts about Moss<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>small nonvascular spore-bearing land plants.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Mosses are distributed throughout the world <strong>except in salt water<\/strong> and are commonly found in moist shady locations.<\/li>\n<li>Ecologically, mosses break down exposed substrata, releasing nutrients for the use of more-complex plants that succeed them.<\/li>\n<li>They also aid in soil erosion control by providing surface cover and absorbing water, and they are important in the nutrient and water economy of some vegetation types.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Soil erosion?<\/h3>\n<p>Soil erosion is the process by which soil is moved or displaced from one location to another by natural or human-induced factors. It involves the removal of the top layer of soil, which contains valuable nutrients and organic matter that support plant growth and ecosystem health.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/technology\/science\/takakia-oldest-surviving-plant-species-8885809\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Oldest surviving plant species saw dinosaurs come and go, humans threaten it<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Takakia is a rare genus of moss that adapted over millions of years to life at high altitudes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}