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Define the term Endemism

Important Questions on Biodiversity and Conservation

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NCERT Exemplar Biology - Class 12>Chapter 15 - Biodiversity and Conservation>VERY SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS>Q 15

What is common to the species shown in figures A and B?

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                              A                                                                   B

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NCERT Exemplar Biology - Class 12>Chapter 15 - Biodiversity and Conservation>VERY SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS>Q 16

What is common to the species shown in figures A and B? 
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                       A                                                                                B

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NCERT Exemplar Biology - Class 12>Chapter 15 - Biodiversity and Conservation>SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS>Q 1
How is the presently occurring species extinction different from the earlier mass extinctions?
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NCERT Exemplar Biology - Class 12>Chapter 15 - Biodiversity and Conservation>SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS>Q 2
Of the four major causes for the loss of biodiversity, alien species invasion, habitat loss and fragmentation, over-exploitation and co-extinctions, which according to you is the major cause for the loss of biodiversity? Give reasons in support.
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NCERT Exemplar Biology - Class 12>Chapter 15 - Biodiversity and Conservation>SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS>Q 3
Discuss one example, based on your day-to-day observations, showing how the loss of one species may lead to the extinction of another.
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NCERT Exemplar Biology - Class 12>Chapter 15 - Biodiversity and Conservation>SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS>Q 4
A species-area curve is drawn by plotting the number of species against the area. How is it that when a very large area is considered the slope is steeper than that for smaller areas?
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NCERT Exemplar Biology - Class 12>Chapter 15 - Biodiversity and Conservation>SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS>Q 5
Is it possible that productivity and diversity of a natural community remain constant over a time period of, say one hundred years?
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NCERT Exemplar Biology - Class 12>Chapter 15 - Biodiversity and Conservation>SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS>Q 6
There is greater biodiversity in tropical/subtropical regions than in the temperate region. Explain.