Biodiversity Study Guide
Biodiversity study guide
1. Briefly describe how our species started to appreciate the biodiversity of the planet (in a geographical and historical context)?
Through the concept of evolution, ecology, population, community and the environment. Species through different periods evolve physiologically and adapting to new environments. Animals who can’t live or survive in certain regions either migrate or die. Common ancestors often link to present day organisms showing biologically and different aspects of adaptations.
2. Early naturalists tended to gather biodiversity information in a slightly different manner compared to modern biologists. Explain.
Back in the day naturalists didn’t have advanced technological equipment and not enough knowledge on a molecular level as they are now in modern biologists. Everything was relied on observations and manual scripts.
3. Compare and contrast the difference between taking digital photographs of an organism versus drawing/sketching one in the field.
Taking digital pictures doesn’t give you the full effect in being around nature whereas sketching one in the field does, but taking photographs you’ll have it forever rather than losing them.
4. Explain the concept of binomial nomenclature.
The concept of binomial nomenclature is naming an organism and classifying them into different groups using hierarchical rankings ; Genus and species.
5. What is a species? Define the biological species concept.
A species is a living organism which follows the biological species concept of parasitism, commensalism, and mutualism. The biological species concept:
Parasitism: one benefits from the other; taking over a host, (+/- reaction) (Ex: plasmodium apicomplexa taking over a human host causing malaria, tapeworm)
Commensalism: one benefits and one doesn’t care, (+/0 reaction)
(Ex: barnacles and whale the barnacles stuck themselves on the whales front side to feed off small crustaceans that falls off the whales
1. Briefly describe how our species started to appreciate the biodiversity of the planet (in a geographical and historical context)?
Through the concept of evolution, ecology, population, community and the environment. Species through different periods evolve physiologically and adapting to new environments. Animals who can’t live or survive in certain regions either migrate or die. Common ancestors often link to present day organisms showing biologically and different aspects of adaptations.
2. Early naturalists tended to gather biodiversity information in a slightly different manner compared to modern biologists. Explain.
Back in the day naturalists didn’t have advanced technological equipment and not enough knowledge on a molecular level as they are now in modern biologists. Everything was relied on observations and manual scripts.
3. Compare and contrast the difference between taking digital photographs of an organism versus drawing/sketching one in the field.
Taking digital pictures doesn’t give you the full effect in being around nature whereas sketching one in the field does, but taking photographs you’ll have it forever rather than losing them.
4. Explain the concept of binomial nomenclature.
The concept of binomial nomenclature is naming an organism and classifying them into different groups using hierarchical rankings ; Genus and species.
5. What is a species? Define the biological species concept.
A species is a living organism which follows the biological species concept of parasitism, commensalism, and mutualism. The biological species concept:
Parasitism: one benefits from the other; taking over a host, (+/- reaction) (Ex: plasmodium apicomplexa taking over a human host causing malaria, tapeworm)
Commensalism: one benefits and one doesn’t care, (+/0 reaction)
(Ex: barnacles and whale the barnacles stuck themselves on the whales front side to feed off small crustaceans that falls off the whales