Components of Biodiversity 3.7

Question 1

The three measurable components for biodiversity are:

Answer 1

Genetic diversity
Species diversity
Ecosystem diversity

Question 2

What is genetic diversity?

Answer 2

The number and frequency of all the alleles of genes possessed by population

Question 3

What does genetic diversity give species the ability to do?

Answer 3

To adapt to changing conditions

Question 4

If one population of a species dies out what might happen?

Answer 4

The species may have lost some of it’s genetic diversity and this may limit its ability to adapt to changing conditions.

Question 5

What is species diversity?

Answer 5

Species diversity comprises the number of different species in an ecosystem (the species richness) and the proportion of each species in the ecosystem (the relative abundance)

Question 6

What is ecosystems diversity?

Answer 6

This refers to the number of distinct ecosystems within a defined area

Question 7

How is ecosystems diversity studied?

Answer 7

By looking at biogeography - the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems.