{"id":29958,"date":"2025-02-08T12:56:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T07:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29958"},"modified":"2025-04-09T12:12:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T06:42:36","slug":"marsupials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/marsupials\/","title":{"rendered":"Marsupials"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Marsupials Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, a team of scientists has successfully produced the first kangaroo embryos using in vitro fertilisation (IVF) which could be a crucial step towards the conservation of endangered marsupial species.<\/p>\n<h2>About Marsupials<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Marsupials are the group of mammals commonly thought of as <strong>pouched mammals.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They give <strong>birth to relatively undeveloped young<\/strong> that often reside in a pouch located on their mothers&#8217; abdomen for a certain amount of time.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>A distinctive characteristic common to most of these species is that the young are carried in a pouch.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Examples:<\/strong> Marsupials include opossums, Tasmanian devils, kangaroos, koalas, wombats, wallabies, bandicoots, and the extinct thylacine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>They represent the clade originating from the last common ancestor of <strong>extant metatherians,<\/strong> the group containing all mammals more closely related to marsupials than to placentals. <strong>Not all marsupials have pouches<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Marsupials have an extra pubic bone, the epipubic bone, to support their pouch.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution of Marsupials:<\/strong> There are over 330 species of marsupials. Around two-thirds of them live in <strong>Australia.<\/strong> The other third live mostly in <strong>South America.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is In Vitro Fertilization?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>medical procedure<\/strong> used to assist individuals or couples who are facing fertility challenges in achieving pregnancy.<\/li>\n<li>It is the most common and effective type of assisted <strong>reproductive technology (ART).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Process of In Vitro Fertilization:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a complex process that involves <strong>retrieving eggs<\/strong> from ovaries and manually combining them with sperm in a lab for fertilization.<\/li>\n<li>Several days after fertilization, the fertilized egg (now called an embryo) is placed inside a uterus.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Pregnancy occurs when this embryo implants itself into the uterine wall.<\/li>\n<li>The procedure can be done using a couple&#8217;s own eggs and sperm. Or IVF may involve eggs, sperm or embryos from a known or anonymous donor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Marsupials FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong> Which continent is famous for its marsupials?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> Presently, close to 70% of the 334 extant species of marsupials are concentrated on the Australian continent,\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong> What are 4 examples of marsupials?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> kangaroos, koalas, opossums, possums, Tasmanian devils, wombats, wallabies, and bandicoots,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3:<\/strong> Are marsupials found in India?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> The Marsupials are native to Australia. They are not naturally found in India.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/wildlife-biodiversity\/australian-scientists-create-28-kangaroo-embryos-using-ivf-in-conservation-breakthrough\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong> DTH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marsupials are the group of mammals commonly thought of as pouched mammals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29958","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\/29958","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=29958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}