AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Biodiversity is the variety of all living things; the different plants, animals and micro organisms, the genetic information they contain and the ecosystems they form.

Detailed explanation-2: -What is genetic diversity? The sum total of all the different forms of genetic information carried by all organisms living on Earth today.

Detailed explanation-3: -Biodiversity is the total of all genetically based variation in all organisms in the biosphere. Many medicines were first discovered in wild species. Genetic diversity is important in agriculture.

Detailed explanation-4: -Biodiversity is a complex term that includes not only the variety of different animals (species diversity) but also the difference between animals of the same species (genetic diversity) and between ecosystems (ecosystem diversity).

Detailed explanation-5: -DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is the hereditary material in humans and almost all other organisms. Nearly every cell in a person’s body has the same DNA.