biodiversity Flashcards

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biodiversity

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Variety of living organism in an area

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Endemism

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A species is unique to a single place

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3
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Natural section

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Leading to adaptations and evolution has increased biodiversity on Earth over time. But human activities reduce species biodiversity, causing biodiversity to fall

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Species richness

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Number of species in that area

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5
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hetrozygosity index

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number of hetrozygotes / number of indiviuals in the population

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D= N(N-1) / sum of n(n-1)

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N = total number of organisims of all species
n = total number of organisms of one species

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genetic diversity

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vriety of alleles in a gene pool of a species

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niche

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role of a species withinits habitat

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9
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organims can be adaapted to the niche is 3 diff ways

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behavioural, psysiologial and anatomical

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behavioural adaptations

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ways an organisms acts that increase the risk its chance of survival

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physiological adaptations

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processes in a organisms body that inceases the chance of survival

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