STS Flashcards
The range of variation found among microorganisms, plants, fungi, and animals. Also the richness of species of living organisms.
Biodiversity
Any living thing
Organism
Populations of organisms of different species that interact with one another.
Community
Any geographic area with all of the living organisms present and the nonliving parts of their physical environment. Involves the movement and storage of energy and matter through living things and activities.
Ecosystem
A group of populations of similar organisms that reproduce among themselves, but do not naturally reproduce with any other kinds of organisms
Species
A unit of inherited material. An organism’s collection of genes determines what it is, what it looks like, and often how it behaves.
Gene
is all the different genes contained in all individual plants, animals, fungi, and microorganisms. It occurs within a species as well as between species.
Genetic diversity
is all the differences within and between populations of species, as well as between different species.
Species diversity
is all the different habitats, biological communities, and ecological processes, as well as variation within individual ecosystems.
Ecosystem diversity
Three level of biodiversity
genetic, species, and ecosystem diversity.
Areas with extremely high levels of biodiversity are called?
hotspots
species that are only found in one particular location—are also found in hotspots.
Endemic species
Why is Biodiversity Important?
Economic, Ecological life support, Recreation, Cultural, and Scientific
are all threats to biodiversity
Pollution, climate change, and population growth
is the protection and management of biodiversity to obtain resources for sustainable development.
Biodiversity conservation
is the conservation of species within their natural habitat by creating protected areas such as national parks, wildlife sanctuaries and biosphere reserves.
In-situ Conservation
involves the breeding and maintenance of endangered species in artificial ecosystems such as zoos, nurseries, botanical gardens, gene banks, etc.
Ex-situ conservation
it is also known as the age of computers, the digital age, and the media age.
The information age
who said this “information might replace matter as the primary stuff of the universe
Von Baeyer
who established the Gutenburg era that started the information age
Johannes Gutenburg
Invention of the printing press kick started the emergence of new ideas.
The Pre-Gutenberg Era
The printing press was considered a catalyst for the Renaissance (the development of science) and powers were lost from exclusive monarchs and restrictive religious orders
The Gutenberg Revolution
The Internet and the World Wide Web in the ‘90s marked the modern world of technology.
Broadband Internet access made many things accessible such as Facebook, Google, Youtube etc.
The Post-Gutenberg World: The Age of Social Media
is the process of using technology to change the genetic makeup of an organism - be it an animal, plant or a bacterium.
Genetic engineering
