What is Biological diversity ??
=>Evolution results in a vast number of different adaptations for survival and reproduction. Life exists in many different forms in soils and on the surface of the land, in water and in the air. All species on earth have not yet been discovered. Fully 1.8 million species are known today. There may be as many as 100 million! About one million of currently known species are insects. There are at least 360,000 green plants. Another 75,000 are molluscs (octopi and squids, snails, mussels, etc.) Nearly 60,000 fungi have been scientifically described. Among the vertebrates, roughly 28,500ray-finned fishes, 10,000 birds, 8,000 reptiles and 5,000 mammals have been described. There are at least 4,000 species of red algae. Knowledge of species and their relationships to each other is essential to much biological research.
=>Evolution results in a vast number of different adaptations for survival and reproduction. Life exists in many different forms in soils and on the surface of the land, in water and in the air. All species on earth have not yet been discovered. Fully 1.8 million species are known today. There may be as many as 100 million! About one million of currently known species are insects. There are at least 360,000 green plants. Another 75,000 are molluscs (octopi and squids, snails, mussels, etc.) Nearly 60,000 fungi have been scientifically described. Among the vertebrates, roughly 28,500ray-finned fishes, 10,000 birds, 8,000 reptiles and 5,000 mammals have been described. There are at least 4,000 species of red algae. Knowledge of species and their relationships to each other is essential to much biological research.
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