biodiversity

Question 1

what is biodiversity?

Answer 1

• the variety of living organisms
• it can be measured in terms of species diversity (no. of species in a community)

Question 2

what are the different types of biodiversity?

Answer 2

• habitat -> range of habitats in a given area
• species -> number of species in a community
• genetic -> variety of alleles within a species

Question 3

differentiate between species richness and species evenness

Answer 3

• species richness: the number of different species in an area
• species evenness: measure of the relative abundance of the different species within a given area

Question 4

how can we assess genetic diversity?

Answer 4

proportion of polymorphic gene loci = no. of polymorphic gene loci ÷ total no. of loci