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If a certain plant species is not found in its wild localities even after repeated search, then it would be listed in which category in the "Red Data Book"?
  1. Extinct
  2. Vulnerable
  3. Rare
  4. Endangered

A
Endangered
B
Vulnerable
C
Rare
D
Extinct
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There are nine categories present in the 'IUCN Red List' system: extinct, extinct in the wild, critically endangered, endangered, vulnerable, near threatened, least concern, data deficient and not evaluated.
Classification into these categories occurs through a set of quantitative criteria that are based on biological factors that include the rate of decline, population size, the area of geographic distribution, and degree of population and distribution fragmentation.
A species is listed as extinct in the wild when it is known only to survive in cultivation, captivity or as a naturalized population outside the previous range. A species is presumed extinct in the wild when exhaustive surveys in known and/or expected habitat, at appropriate times (diurnal, seasonal, annual), throughout its historic range have failed to record an individual.

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