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what does habitat biodiversity include?

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sand dunes, woodland,
meadows, streams

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what is species biodiversity made up of?

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species richness and species evenness

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what is habitat biodiversity?

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the range of different ecosystems or habitats within a particular area or region

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what is species biodiversity?

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the number of different species in an ecosystem, and also the evenness of abundance across the different species present

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what is the species richness?

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the number of species in a habitat

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what is the species eveness?

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the relative abundance of each species in an area

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Why are both species evenness and species richness needed to assess biodiversity?

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  • Because they’re both needed to reveal dominance.
  • Because high biodiversity is associated with both high species richness and high species evenness.
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why are ecosystems with high species diversity usually more stable than those with lower species diversity?

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because they are more resilient to environmental changes

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what is the genetic diversity?

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the diversity of alleles and genes in the genome of species

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is it true that although individuals of the same species will have the same genes they will not necessarily have the same alleles for each gene?

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Yes

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how is the genetic diversity measured?

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by working out the proportion of genes that have more than one form (allele) and how many possible alleles each gene has

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why is genetic diversity important?

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  • it can help the population adapt to, and survive, changes in the environment
  • The changes could be in biotic factors such as new predators, pathogens and competition with other species
  • Or the changes could be through abiotic factors like temperature, humidity and rainfall
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why is genetic diversity limited in populations that are very small or isolated?

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  • Inbreeding in small, isolated populations leads to a high proportion of individuals being homozygous (e.g. AA to aa) for many genes, resulting in lower genetic diversity
  • This can mean that genetic diseases caused by recessive alleles can become more common in these populations
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what is a species?

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A group of individual organisms similar in
appearance, anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and genetics, whose members are able to interbreed freely to produce fertile offspring.

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what is a habitat?

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A place where an organism lives

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what is biodiversity?

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the variety of species in an area and the variety of habitats in an area.

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why can we only give estimates for the number of species?

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  • New species are discovered all the time.
  • Evolution and speciation are still occuring.
  • We will never be sure that we have found all species.
  • Species are endangered and some are becoming extinct
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What are some factors that can lead to a species becoming extinct?

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  • Climate change
  • Pollution
  • Disease
  • New pests/predators
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How does climate change affect biodiversity?

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  • As the climate rapidly changes, species with
    reduced variation will not be able to adapt to the
    new selection pressures.
  • They are then left with the option of migration to
    habitats more suitable to there species.
  • This means whole ecosystems are now effected
    by the actions of humans and are either dying out
    or shifting.
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What can prevent organisms from migrating?

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  • Major human developments
  • Agriculture
  • Water availability
  • Humans
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How does climate change affect the spread of disease?

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  • Crops being grown in new areas mean new diseases and pests to combat.
  • Longer growing seasons mean more pests and many will start to survive over winter.
  • This also means the movement of pests causing human disease to spread to new areas (Malaria, Sleeping sickness)
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How does climate change affect agriculture?

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  • Higher CO2 levels alter photosynthesis
  • Longer growing seasons
  • Greater evaporation of water hence more rain
  • Change in rain distributions
  • Loss of land due to rising sea levels
  • Increased salinisation of soils
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what is an ecosystem?

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a community of animals, plants and bacteria interrelated with the physical and chemical environment

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what is a habitat?

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a place where an organism lives

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what is a population?

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all the organisms of one species, who live in the same place at the same time, and who can breed together

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what is a community?

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all the populations of different species, who live in the same place at the same time, and who can interact with each other

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What are abiotic factors?

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Non-living components of an ecosystem that affect other living things

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what are producers?

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organisms such as plants that produce biomass by converting energy from the sun into chemical energy in biological molecules

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what are consumers?

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heterotopic organisms in a food chain or web: primary consumers feed on plants and are eaten by secondary consumers. These in turn are eaten by tertiary consumers

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what are decomposers?

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bacteria, fungi, and some animals that feed on waste material or dead organisms

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what are carnivores?

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secondary and tertiary consumers that eat other animals

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what are herbivores?

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primary consumers, animals that eat plants

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what are omnivores?

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animals that eat producers and consumers

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what is a niche?

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the role of each species in an ecosystem

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what is sampling?

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a method of investigating the abundance and distribution of species and populations

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what are the 2 different types of sampling?

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  • Random
  • Non- random
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describe random sampling

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In random sampling, the positions of the sampling points are completely random or due to chance

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describe non-random sampling

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In non-random sampling the positions of the sampling points are chosen by the person carrying out the sampling

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why is random sampling beneficial?

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because it means there will be no bias by the person that is carrying out the sampling that may affect the results

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what are the disadvantages of non-random sampling?

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  • There is a possibility that the person choosing could show bias towards or against certain areas
  • Non-random sampling usually isn’t representative of the whole area
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how can random sampling be used to measure the abundance and distribution of fast moving animals?

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  • Sweeping nets
  • Pitfall traps
  • Pooters
  • Tullgren funnel
  • Kick-sampling
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what are the 3 main types of non-ransom sampling?

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  • opportunistic
  • stratified
  • systematic
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Describe opportunistic sampling

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  • involves picking and choosing sampling locations based on various non-random factors. For example, students on a field trip may be told they can only collect samples from locations that are nearby, easy to reach, and safe. usually the weakest out of non-random because involves using the organisms you can easily access.
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Define stratified sampling

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  • involves matching the number of sampling locations in a particular habitat with the relative proportion of area that habitat covers in the whole area being studied. For example, if 10% of a dense woodland being sampled is actually made up of grassy clearings, then 90% of the sample locations should be in the woodland habitat and 10% in the grass habitat

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Define systematic sampling

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  • used when there is a clear change in the physical conditions across the area being studied
  • an habitat is sectioned up into different sections and each is then sampled.
  • most logical
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what are sweeping nets?

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are large, strong nets with a fine material (very small holes) that are used to catch flying insects and insects that live in long grass by sweeping the net back and forth through the grass

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what are pitfall traps?

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cans or jars that are buried in the ground that are used to catch ground-dwelling (often nocturnal) insects and other invertebrates as they fall into the trap

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what are pooters?

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small plastic or glass containers with two tubes sticking out that are used to suck up small insects and other small invertebrates. The first tube is placed over the insect and the second tube is used by the scientist to create suction

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What 2 things can be looked at in order to identify the species diversity?

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  • species richness
  • species evenness
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is species richness a correct identifier of species diversity?

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no, because the species richness does not take into account the number of individuals of each species

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what statistical test can be used to work out the biodiversity of a habitat?

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Simpsons index of biodiversity

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what is the formula for simpsons index of biodiversity?

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D = 1- (sum(n/N)^2)

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Although individuals of the same species will have the same genes at the same loci they will not necessarily have ……

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the same alleles for each gene

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what is loci?

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the specific linear position of a particular gene on a certain chromosome

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what is the gene pool compromised of?

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The gene pool is comprised of all the alleles of all the genes within a species

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is it true that there can be genetic diversity both between different populations, and within a single polulation

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yes

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why is genetic diversity within a species important?

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because it creates a larger gene pool which can help the population adapt, and survive changes in the environment

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what change in the environment can help increase the gene pool?

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biotic and abiotic chnages

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Give some examples of biotic factors

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  • new predators
  • pathogens
  • competition with other species
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Give some examples of abiotic factors

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  • temperature
  • humidity
  • rainfall
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how can genetic biodiversity be assessed?

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using the following equation:
proportion of polymorphic gene loci =
number of polymorphic gene loci/ total number of loci

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what is polymorphic gene loci?

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The number of loci that have two or more alleles

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what do suitable populations for the following equation include (proportion of polymorphic gene loci =
number of polymorphic gene loci/ total number of loci )?

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zoos (captive breeding),
rare breeds and pedigree animals.

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what factors affect biodiversity?

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-human population growth
-agriculture
-(monoculture) and climate change.

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for how many years has the human population been growing exponentially?

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for 150 years

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why has the human population grown exponentially?

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  • Improved technology leading to an abundance of food = increase in birth rate
  • Improved medicine, hygiene and health care = decrease in death rate
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Why has the exponential human population growth impacted biodiversity?

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  • ## Greater use of natural resources are being used, which has harmful effect on many aspects of the environment, including aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, and our atmosphere and climate.
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How does climate change affect biodiversity?

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  • climate change is now occurring too fast for many species to be able to adapt to these changes, which could result in many species becoming extinct and a major decline in biodiversity
  • Global warming (a result of climate change) is causing many species to move towards the poles or to higher altitudes.
  • However, these species may not be able to compete with, or may even out-compete, the species already present in these habitats, with either result leading to decreased biodiversity
  • Some species (such as plant species) may not be able to move or change their distributions fast enough to adapt to increasing temperature and may go extinct as a result
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How is agriculture impacting biodiverstity?

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  • Many modern farming techniques negatively impact biodiversity.
  • For example, Hedgerows represent an important habitat for many insects, small mammals and birds, which can nest there. As hedgerows are being increasingly removed, this habitat and the biodiversity it supports is lost
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What reasons are there for maintaining biodiversity?

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  • Ecological : protecting keystone species
    (interdependence of organisms) and
    maintaining genetic resource
  • Economic: including reducing soil depletion
    (continuous monoculture).
  • Aesthetic: including protecting landscapes.
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what are the 2 main methods of increasing biodiversity?

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in situ conservation and ex situ conservation

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what are some examples of in situ conservation?

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marine conservation zones and wildlife reserves

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what are some examples of ex situ conservation?

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seed banks, botanic gardens and zoos.

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what is an endangered species?

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a species that is being threatened with extinction

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what is in situ conservation?

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conservation carried out in the natural habitat

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what is ex situ conservation?

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conservation outside the natural habitat

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what are the government restrictions on national parks?

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  • Humans access is strictly controlled
  • Industrial activities such as agriculture and building are tightly regulated
  • Hunting is limited or completely prohibited
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what are marine conservation zones?

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protected areas of water that have been set up for the conservation of endangered marine ecosystems and species

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what is a problem with keeping organisms in zoos?

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  • Captive breeding of small species populations can reduce genetic diversity
  • Certain animal species will not breed in captivity
  • Not all zoos can provide adequate habitats for animals with specific needs
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what are botanic gardens?

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the plant equivalent of zoos. They use cuttings and seeds collected from the wild to establish a population of the endangered species in captivity

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what is a seed bank?

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a facility that conserves plant diversity by drying and storing seeds in a temperature controlled environment

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what is the role of national parks in conservation?

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protecting endangered animals and plant species through strict regulations. Also help increase public engagement in conservation.

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what is the role of marine conservation zones in conservation?:

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protecting endangered marine species through restrictions. Also helps increase awareness.

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what is the role of zoos in conservation?

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carry out captive breeding programmes for the reintroduction of animal species to the wild. Also promote research and education

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what is the role of botanic gardens in conservation?

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carry out captive breeding programmes for the reintroduction of plant species to the wild. Also promote research and education

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what is the role of frozen zoos inconservation?

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provide long term storage of animal genetic material at very low temperatures

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what is he role of seed banks in conservation?

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provide the long term storage of plant seeds in a temperature-controlled environment

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what are the international and local conservation agreements
made to protect species and habitats?

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  • Convention on International Trade in Endangered
    Species (CITES)
  • the Rio Convention on Biological
    Diversity (CBD)
  • the Countryside Stewardship
    Scheme (CSS)
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what are the goals of CBD?

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  • The conservation of biological diversity by use of a variety of different conservation methods
  • The sustainable use of biological resources
  • The fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from genetic resources
  • The countries that signed the convention agreed to design and implement national strategies for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, as well as to organise international cooperation and further international meetings
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what are the goals of CITES?

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  • a global agreement that has been signed by over 150 countries
  • aim is to control the trade of endangered species and their associated products
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what are the goals of CSS?

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  • ## dating back to the 1980s that provided funding (i.e. a financial incentive) to farmers and private landowners in England who used environmental management strategies to protect and increase the natural biodiversity on their land
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what is taxonomy?

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the practice of biological classification

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what does the biological classification system allow us to do?

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The biological classification system enables us to arrange species into groups based on their evolutionary origins and relationships

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How many taxonomic groups are there?

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What are the 8 taxonomic groups?

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-Domain
-Kingdom
-Phylum
-Class
-Order
-Family
-Genus
-Species

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What’s a way of remembering the taxonomic hierarchy?

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Kings Play Chess On Fancy Gold Squares

97
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What is the domain of all eukaryotes?

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eukarya

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why 5 kingdoms can organisms be placed into?

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-Prokaryotae
- Protoctista
- Fungi
- Plantae
- Animalia

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what is a species?

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a group of organisms that are able to reproduce to produce fertile offspring

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What naming system is used for classification?

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The binomial naming system

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What is the first part of the binomial name?

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The genus

102
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What is the second part of the binomial name?

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The species

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Why is the binomial naming system useful?

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because they allow for species to be universally identified - the binomial for a species is the same across the entire globe

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Does the genus have a capital letter?

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Yes

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Does the species begin with a lower case letter?

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Yes

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What happens if it’s not possible to italiszie the binomial name?

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It will be underlined

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Why are plants photoautotrophs?

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because they produce their own food using light

108
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what is the highest rank in taxonomy?

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domain

109
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what are the 3 domains?

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bacteria, archea, eukarya

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why are archea sometimes referred to as extremophile prokaryotes?

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were first discovered living in extreme environments

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Why are archaea different from bacteria?

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  • Unique lipids being found in the membranes of their cells
  • No peptidoglycan in their cell walls
  • Ribosomal structure are more similar to the eukaryotic ribosome than that of the bacteria
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is it true that before the three domains of life (Bacteria, Archaea and Eukarya) were introduced and then widely accepted as the highest rank in the classification of life on Earth, most people thought there to be five kingdoms at the top of the classification hierarchy?

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Yes

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What are the main features of prokaryota?

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  • Unicellular
  • No nucleus
  • Cell walls
  • No mitochondria
  • Divide by binary fission
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What are the main features of Protoctista?

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  • Eukaryotic
  • Can be unicellular or simple multicellular
  • ## No cell walls
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What are the main features of Fungi?

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  • Eukaryotic
  • Chitin cell wall
  • heterotrophs that obtain this energy and carbon by digesting dead/decaying matter
  • reproduce using spores
  • can be single-celled or multicellular
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what are the main features of plantae?

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  • Eukaryotic
  • Multicellular
  • Cellulose cell wall
  • ## autotrophic, produce their own food
117
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what are the main features of animalia?

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  • eukaryotic
  • multicellular
  • have no cell walls
  • ## heterotrophic
118
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why is the 3 domain system used instead of the 5 kingdom system?

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  • Due to molecular evidence. The enzyme RNA polymerase is different in bacteria and archaea. Also, archaea have similar histone proteins to Eukarya.
  • Due to cell membrane evidence. The bonds of the lipids in the cell membranes of the bacteria and archaea are different. The development and composition of flagella are also different.
119
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What is homology?

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a traditional biological classification system that grouped organisms based on the features that they shared

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in the past, how did scientists try to determine the evolutionary relationships of species?

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by looking at physical features that were the same, such as colour, shape, size

121
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have DNA, RNA and protein sequencing allowed scientists to further investigate the evolutionary relationships between species?

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Yes

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what is phylogeny?

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the term used to describe the evolutionary history of organisms. in other words, how closely related organisms are

123
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what are phylogenetic trees?

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diagrams that show the evolutionary relationships between different taxa

124
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what 3 types of sequence data are used to investigate evolutionary relationships?

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  • DNA
  • mRNA
  • Amino acids of a protein
125
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Cytochrome C

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Cytochrome C is a short protein found in many species. The more similar the amino acid sequence of cytochrome C in 2 different species, the more closely related the species are likely to be.

126
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Evolution, then variation

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127
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according to phylogenetics, what is a species?

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the smallest group that shares a common ancestor

128
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what is classifying organisms according to phylogeny called?

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cladistics

129
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what observations did Darwin make to help him develop the theory of evolution?

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  • All organisms produce more offspring than could ever actually survive
  • Populations of organisms do fluctuate (change over time) but not significantly
  • Populations of the same species of organisms show variation in characteristics between individuals (known as intraspecific variation)
  • Offspring inherit characteristics from their parents
130
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what are 2 key sources of evidence for the theory of evolution by natural selection?

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  • Fossil evidence
  • DNA evidence/molecular evidence
131
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What ae the key components of Darwin’s theory of evolution?

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  • Individuals within a population show variation in their phenotypes
  • Selection pressures create a struggle for survival.
  • Individuals with better adaptations are more likely to survive and have reproductive success.
  • Over time, the proportion of the population possessing these advantageous alleles increases.
  • Over generations, this leads to evolution as the favourable adaptations become more common in the population
132
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Who realised that warning colours are used by some species to deter predators from eating them and that this is an example of an advantageous adaptation that had evolved by natural selection?

A

Alfred Russel Wallace

133
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is it true that DNA sequence analysis and comparison can be used to create phylogenetic trees that show the evolutionary relationships between species?

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Yes

134
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did closely related species diverge more recently?

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yes

135
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is it true that organisms that have diverged away from each other more recently should have more similar DNA?

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Yes, because less time has passed for changes in the DNA sequence to occur.

136
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what is variation?

A

the differences that occur between 2 individuals

137
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what is interspecific variation?

A

variation that occurs between different species

138
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what is intraspecific variation?

A

variation that occurs between individuals of the same species

139
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what is continuous variation?

A

when the individuals within a population vary within a range- there are no distinct categories

140
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what is discontinuous variation?

A

where there are 2 or more distinct categories and no intermediates

141
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what causes variation?

A

both genetic and environmental factors

142
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what are alleles ?

A

different versions of genes

143
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what is the phenotype?

A

the characteristics displayed by an organism

144
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what does the standard deviation tell you?

A

how much the data is spread around the mean

145
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what does a large standard deviation tell you?

A

that the values in a sample vary a lot

146
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what does a small standard deviation tell you?

A

that the data is around the mean value and so only varies a little

147
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what are selection pressures?

A

Environmental factors that affect the chance of survival of an organism

148
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what 3 things can an adaptation be?

A

anatomical, physiological or behavioural

149
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what causes adaptations to develop?

A

evolution by natural selection

150
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what are anatomical adaptations?

A

Structural or physical features

151
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what are physiological adaptations?

A

Biological processes within the organism

152
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what are behavioural adaptations?

A

The way an organism behaves

153
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why do organisms from different taxonomic groups sometimes show similar anatomical features?

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  • because the organisms have evolved in similar environments to fill similar ecological niches
  • i.e marsupial and placental moles
154
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what is an ecological niche?

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155
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what is convergent evolution?

A

where 2 species evolve similar characteristics independently of one another

156
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what is genetic variation?

A

where individuals within a population have differences between their DNA base sequences

157
Q

what does differences in the alleles possessed by individuals within a population result in?

A

differences in phenotypes

158
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what do selection pressures result in?

A

increase the chance of individuals with a specific (more advantageous) phenotype surviving and reproducing over others

159
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is it true that a population with a large gene pool or high genetic diversity has a strong ability to adapt to change?

A

yes

160
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Natural Selection

A
  • Mutations occur within a species.
  • This causes variation.
  • So, some individuals will develop a phenotype that gives them survival advantages.
  • Individuals with advantageous characteristics are more likely to survive and reproduce.
  • The gene (genotype) is then passed on to its offspring
161
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Why may organisms from different taxonomic groups have similar features?

A

because they have evolved in similar environments and because they fill similar ecological niches

162
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What 2 things cause evolution?

A

Natural selection and genetic drift

163
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What is evolution?

A

The slow and continual change of organisms from one generation to the next

164
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What 2 things cause evolution?

A

Natural selection and genetic drift

165
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What is a population?

A

A group of organisms of the same species living in a particular area

166
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What is the difference between natural selection and genetic drift?

A

In genetic drift, instead of environmental factors affecting which individuals pass on advantageous alleles, chance does

167
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Describe genetic drift

A

1) Individuals within a population show variation in their phenotype.

2) By chance, the allele for one phenotype is passed on to the offspring, more than others.

3) So the number of individuals with the allele increases.

4) If by chance the same allele is passed on more often again and again, it can lead to evolution, as the allele becomes more common in the population.

168
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When does evolution by genetic drift have a greater effect?

A
  • in the case of genetic bottleneck
  • in the case of the founder effect
169
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What is genetic bottleneck?

A

An event that causes a big reducion in a population’s size, leading to a reduction in the gene pool

170
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What is the founder effect?

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When a few organisms from a population start a new population and there are only a small number of different alleles in the intial gene pool.

171
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Hardy Weiberg Principle

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predicts that the frequencies of alleles in a populaiton won’t change much from one generation to the next but only if:

  • large population with no immigration, emigration, mutations, natural selection and only if there’s random mating.
172
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is it true that high plant biodiversity supports drug discovery and development?

A

Yes

173
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Explain how a pitfall trap can be set up and used to sample invertebrate biodiversity

A
  • dig hole and place container in soil
  • cover to protect from rain
  • leave overnight
  • Count the invertebrates
  • Make sure to sample both areas randomly.

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