Intro to Biodiversity

Question 1

What is biodiversity?

Answer 1

Variability of living organism from all sources, including but not limited to, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are apart of, this includes diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems

Question 2

What factors come under ecological diversity?

Answer 2

Biomes

Bioregions

Landscapes

Ecosystems

Habitats

Niches

Populations

Question 3

What factors come under genetic diversity?

Answer 3

Populations

Individuals

Chromsomes

Genes

Nucleotides

Question 4

What factors come under organismal diversity?

Answer 4

Kingdoms

Phyla

Classes

Orders

Families

Genera

Species

Subspecies

Populations

Individuals

Question 5

What are indirect use values of biodiversity and some examples?

Answer 5

Services that support human life that is not traded on markets

Pollination

Soil formation/maintenance

Water management

Waste processing

Question 6

What are the problems with the traditional trees of life?

Answer 6

1) Most based on anatomical and development similarities (convergent evolution makes this inaccurate)

2) Many organisms are missing

3) Biased towards animals

4) Man always ends up on top

Question 7

What does natural selection lead to?

Answer 7

Evolution

Question 8

How are evolutionary relationships inferred?

Answer 8

1) Paleontological evidence

2) Anatomical similarities

3) Development similarity

4) Molecular similarity

Question 9

What is direct use value of biodiversity and some examples?

Answer 9

Direct use of resources in consumption and production

Food
Medicine
Biological control
Industrial materials
Recreational harvesting
Ecotourism