NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Humans value biodiversity for spiritual or religious reasons. A biodiversity’s intrinsic worth is independent to its monetary or other monetary value. This is a philosophical concept, similar to the inalienable right to exist.

Detailed explanation-2: -"intrinsic value of biodiversity” designates the value that is independent of potential usefulness of biodiversity for human beings. However if we say “in-trinsic value” we already ascribe by these words some value to a given object though perhaps it is not exhaus-tively clear why this object is valuable.

Detailed explanation-3: -Biodiversity supports human and societal needs, including food and nutrition security, energy, development of medicines and pharmaceuticals and freshwater, which together underpin good health. It also supports economic opportunities, and leisure activities that contribute to overall wellbeing.

Detailed explanation-4: -Figure 1: Quotations on the Intrinsic Value of Species. Intrinsic value is the value that an entity has in itself, for what it is, or as an end (Figure 1). The contrasting type of value is instrumental value. Instrumental value is the value that something has as a means to a desired or valued end.