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    Base on the study of Chivian‚ E. (2002) Biodiversity plays very important role in human nutrition through its influence on world food production. All of the plants products that operated by human either directly or indirectly‚ were came originally from wild ancestors. And also those animals that domesticated by human. Domesticated animals and plants were selected and bred for their desirable traits‚ but because of the environmental circumstances and those stress change‚ as the requirements and preference

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    Tourism and biodiversity are closely intertwined. Millions of people travel each year to experience nature’s splendour. The income generated by sustainable tourism can provide important support for nature conservation‚ as well as for economic development. Furthermore‚ sustainable tourism can help to raise awareness among tourists and local communities of the importance of biodiversity to our everyday lives. Through initiatives such as its “Sustainable Tourism – Eliminating Poverty” project‚ and

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    The Destruction of Biodiversity Why should you care? You should care‚ because there exists a chain to which all life is linked. Humans stand not apart‚ and there is no beginning or end. Extinction is like a trickling stream that grows to threaten riverbanks before drowning the world with oceans. We are foolish and naïve to assume that our creek can be maintained as we constantly introduce new species into foreign ecosystems‚ and destroy biodiversity with the detrimental effects of human integration

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    forty seconds passed‚ which was much longer for a pilot with 5 years of experience‚ to eject her seat off from the airplane. My mind was in a complete daze and was in a state of consternation. I was about to die‚ and I knew it. The scene was exactly how you could imagine it in the movies- the plane swaying side to side without proper control‚ a transient rain of burning‚ hot‚ red meteors flying from the sky which was as black as coal and the helpless pilot‚ trying to find her way out. I was definitely

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    Lab 3 – Biodiversity Demonstration 1: Interdependence of Species |Table 1: Interdependence of Species Results | |Round |Species Missing (Bead Color and Name) | |1 |Linchens

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    more abundant in the next generation. Over many generations the better-suited version predominates. This happens over and over from species to species‚ in small increments of change‚ to build entirely new species. In this way‚ natural selection has built all living things‚ including us. In The Selfish Gene‚ Dawkins defines the basic theory this way: We are survival machines‚ but “we” does not mean just people. It embraces all animals‚ plants‚ bacteria‚ and viruses…An octopus is nothing like

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    soil conservation. They are the natural home of much type- of animals‚ birds‚ reptiles‚ insects etc. They supply timber‚ fuel‚ medicines‚ and wood for peeper-pulp and raw materials for many industries. The increasing depletion and destruction of wildlife is a source of great concern. One out of every seven persons of the world live in India. India has 16 per cent of the world’s population with only 2.4 percent of its land area. There is much pressure on our natural resources including forests. In

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    prehistoric times for humans - a primitive society not an industrialized society. 1. How might natural selection have influenced human choices and behaviors in a prehistoric society? Answer in paragraph form. Natural selection may have been influential when it came to human choices and behaviors in a prehistoric society in that the natural selection process shaping the choices and behaviors of a human. Natural selection gives reward to the individuals that are more adaptive to their own environments

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    INTRODUCTION According to Oxford Dictionary‚ biodiversity means the state of having a large amount of different number of animals and plants which make a balanced environment. Biodiversity is also known as flora and fauna. The meaning of flora is all the plants growing in a particular area while fauna means all the animals of an area or a period of time. Rafflessia for flora while tiger for fauna is a case in point. Crisis on the other hand means a time of great danger or difficulty‚ the moment

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    been projected to exist (Becher‚ 1998‚ 60). Tropical entomologist Terry Erwin’s research supports that there may be as many as 30 million insect species alone in the tropical rainforests (Shiva et al‚ 1991‚ 14). One of the true challenges to biodiversity is that there are so many species that we may be obliterating that we are not even aware exist yet. We are destroying species faster than we can identify them. Extinction and evolution are a normal part of the life cycle on Earth. Of all

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