chap 10

Question 1

biodiversity

Answer 1

the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.

Question 2

gene

Answer 2

a unit of heredity which is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring.

Question 3

keystone species

Answer 3

a species on which other species in an ecosystem largely depend, such that if it were removed the ecosystem would change drastically.

Question 4

endangered species

Answer 4

a species of animal or plant that is seriously at risk of extinction.

Question 5

threatened species

Answer 5

any species which is likely to become an endangered species within the foreseeable future throughout all or a significant portion of its range.

Question 6

exotic species

Answer 6

species of plants or animals that are growing in a nonnative environment

Question 7

poaching

Answer 7

a major existential threat to numerous wild organisms worldwide and is an important contributor to biodiversity loss.

Question 8

endemic species

Answer 8

Any species whose range is restricted to a limited geographical area.

Question 9

germ plasm

Answer 9

germ cells collectively.

Question 10

endangered species act

Answer 10

a key legislation for both domestic and international conservation.

Question 11

habitat conservation act

Answer 11

a required part of an application for an Incidental Take Permit, a permit issued under the United States Endangered Species Act (ESA) to private entities undertaking projects that might result in the destruction of an endangered or threatened species.

Question 12

biodiversity treaty

Answer 12

the variability among living organisms from all sources including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part; this includes diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems