NEET BIOLOGY

ECOLOGY

BIODIVERSITY AND ITS CONSERVATION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Term Biodiversity was popularized by
A
Paul Ehlrich
B
David Tilman
C
Edward Wilson
D
Robert May
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The term Biodiversity was given by W.G. Rosen. But this term was popularized by Edward Wilson. He defined biodiversity for different levels of the organization like; Genetic variation, Species variation, and ecological variations. He was a socio-biologist.

Detailed explanation-2: -The term biodiversity was popularised by the sociobiologist Edward Wilson to describe the combined diversity at all the levels of biological organisation.

Detailed explanation-3: -According to Edward Wilson, biodiversity the contracted term of biological diversity was first coined by W.G. Rosen in 1985 and the term biodiversity was first published in 1988 in an article.

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