NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Biodiversity supports human and societal needs, including food and nutrition security, energy, development of medicines and pharmaceuticals and freshwater, which together underpin good health.

Detailed explanation-2: -Biodiversity is the variability among living organisms from all sources, including terrestrial, marine, and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part; this includes diversity within species, between species, and of ecosystems.

Detailed explanation-3: -Biodiversity refers to every living thing, including plants, bacteria, animals, and humans.

Detailed explanation-4: -Without human diversity, there is no biodiversity.

Detailed explanation-5: -The main direct cause of biodiversity loss is land use change (primarily for large-scale food production) which drives an estimated 30% of biodiversity decline globally. Second is overexploitation (overfishing, overhunting and overharvesting) for things like food, medicines and timber which drives around 20%.