18 Classification, Biodiversity & Conservation

Question 1

What is biodiversity?

Answer 1

the variety of living organisms and ecosystems and genetic diversity within species

Question 2

How do you measure biodiversity?

Answer 2

• species richness
• genetic diversity
• no./range of ecosystems/habitats

Question 3

What is species richness?

Answer 3

no. of different species in the community

Question 4

What is genetic diversity?

Answer 4

measure of genetic variation (no. of alleles in a gene pool)

Question 5

what is an endemic species?

Answer 5

species found within a certain area

Question 6

what is an ecosystem?

Answer 6

self contained, community of organisms and environment in where they live/interact

Question 7

what is a community?

Answer 7

living organisms found in particular ecosystem at particular time

Question 8

what is a niche?

Answer 8

role of organism in an ecosystem

Question 9

what is a habitat?

Answer 9

place where organism, population or community lives

Question 10

what is the hierarchy of taxa?

Answer 10

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