BSC1005 Biodiversity Exam Questions and Answers (100% Pass)
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BSC1005 Biodiversity Exam Questions and Answers (100% Pass)
Biodiversity - Answer️️ -The variety of life, and can refer to: habitat,
species and genetic diversity, etc..
Developmental Diversity - Answer️️ -Differences in cells within the body
Genetic Biodiversity - Answer️️ -Differe...
BSC1005 Biodiversity Exam Questions and Answers (100% Pass)
Biodiversity - Answer✔️✔️-The variety of life, and can refer to: habitat,
species and genetic diversity, etc..
Developmental Diversity - Answer✔️✔️-Differences in cells within the body
Genetic Biodiversity - Answer✔️✔️-Differences in genes
Geographical Biodiversity - Answer✔️✔️-Differences in life between
geographical regions
Vast Number in species of life - Answer✔️✔️-There are between 1.5 and 2
million named species of living things on earth. Plants-300,000 Fungi-
100,000 Bacteria and Protista-100,000 Vertebrates-50,000 Insects-950,000
Species - Answer✔️✔️-A population or group of populations of organisms
that are very similar to one another(share a recent evolutionary history)
Important components of species - Answer✔️✔️-The ability to interbreed
Lennean system of classification - Answer✔️✔️-Binomial names(two names)
Genus Species - Answer✔️✔️-ex. Homo sapiens(humans)... homo is the
genus name and sapiens is the species
Species Richness - Answer✔️✔️-The number of species occurring in a
particular area
Species Diversity - Answer✔️✔️-combination of number of species and
relative number of individuals of each species
Diversity of species throughout the world - Answer✔️✔️-Species are NOT
spread evenly throughout the world, ex. tropical areas typically have more
species than temperate ones
Ecosystems - Answer✔️✔️-Combination of both biotic and abiotic factors
Ecosystem Services - Answer✔️✔️-Something such as oxygen, fresh water,
or food that is provided by an ecosystem by its species
Genomics - Answer✔️✔️-The new use of the comparative method
Genome - Answer✔️✔️-entire set of genetic material in a cell
Allele - Answer✔️✔️-particular version of a gene
Source of Genetic variation - Answer✔️✔️-individuals having different
alleles
Human Impact on biodiversity - Answer✔️✔️-Is negative due to human
interactions such as pollution, agriculture, etc
World Event taking place due to negative human impact on biodiversity -
Answer✔️✔️-Going into the world's 6th mass extinction event. current
extinction rates are between 10 and 100 times higher than those estimated
from the fossil record
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