What are the three levels of diversity?
A critical factor in a species survival within populations
What is the level of genetic diversity?
corn, tomato, beans, peanut, potato, avocado, pumpkin, pineapple, cocoa, vanilla, and peppers
What are North America, Central America, and South America?
Scientists are warning that we are in the midst of another mass extinction. The rate of extinction is estimated to have increased by a multiple of 50 since when
What is 1800?
What is biodiversity?
We depend on healthy ecosystems to ensure a healthy biosphere that has balanced cycles of these things
What are energy and nutrients?
When a population shrinks what happens to the genetic diversity as it passes through a bottleneck
What is decreases?
wheat, sesame, chickpea, fig, lentil, carrot, pea, okra, date, walnut, coffee, cow, goat, pig, and sheep
What are Northeastern Africa, Central Asia, and Near East
These two species are not likely to become extinct because they have large populations that adapt easily to many habitats
What are cockroaches and rats
Critical to the functioning of an ecosystem
What is a keystone species?
If a population is able to increase, what will happen as a result within a variety of genes
What is inbreeding?
soybean, rice, banana, coconut, lemon, lime, orange, cucumber, eggplant, turnip, tea, black pepper, and chicken
What are India, East Asia, and Pacific Islands?
The current primary cause of extinction
What are humans?
A piece of DNA that codes for a specific trait that can be inherited by an organism's offspring
What is a gene?
Throughout history people have used a variety of organisms on Earth for these reasons
What is food, clothing, shelter, and medicine?
What is biodiversity?
Species that is likely to become extinct if protective measures are not taken immediately
What is an endangered species?
Biological diversity
What is biodiversity?
This animal is an example of what
What is a keystone species?
Almost all anitibotics are derived from this
What are chemicals found in fungi?
What are hybrids?
Species that has a declining population and that is likley to become endangered if it is not protected
What is a threatened species?
This starts with the unfinished task of cataloging all the species that exist on Earth
What is the study of biodiversity?