AP BIOLOGY

ECOLOGY

HUMANS AND THE BIOSPHERE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
____ occurs when a species disappears from all or part of its range.
A
Elimination
B
Endangering
C
Extinction
D
Removal
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -desertification. Extinction happens when species of a larger group has disappeared or terminated.

Detailed explanation-2: -Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and recover may have been lost before this point.

Detailed explanation-3: -Solution : Natural extinction, mass extinction and anthropogenic extinction.

Detailed explanation-4: -Today, we can distinguish between two types of extinction, depending on the way the species disappears: Phyletic extinction or pseudoextinction.

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