AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Genetic diversity is the biological variation that occurs within species. It makes it possible for species to adapt when the environment changes. Genetic diversity is particularly important under rapid environmental change, such as in the Baltic Sea.

Detailed explanation-3: -Genetic diversity is all the different genes contained in all individual plants, animals, fungi, and microorganisms. It occurs within a species as well as between species. Species diversity is all the differences within and between populations of species, as well as between different species.

Detailed explanation-4: -The components of biodiversity are interconnected. For example, genetic diversity provides the basis of continuing adaptation to changing conditions, and continued crop productivity rests on the diversity in crop species and on the variety of soil invertebrates and microorganisms that maintain soil fertility.

Detailed explanation-5: -“Species diversity is defined as the number of different species present in an ecosystem and relative abundance of each of those species.” Diversity is greatest when all the species present are equally abundant in the area.