Biodiversity is the variety of organisms in an area - this includes species diversity and genetic diversity
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What is species diversity?
Species diversity is the number of different species and the abundance of each species in an area e.g. woods could contain many different species of plants, insects, birds and mammals
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What is genetic diversity?
Genetic diversity is the variation of alleles within a species or a population of species e.g. human blood type is determined by a gene with 4 different alleles
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What is endemism?
Edemism is when a species is unique to one place, it cannot be found any where else
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What is species richness?
The number of different species in the area - species richness gives no indication of the abundance of each species
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Species diversity is the number of different species and the abundance of each species in an area e.g. woods could contain many different species of plants, insects, birds and mammals
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