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Biology
Category: Science > Biology Asked by: katzor-ga List Price: $2.00 |
Posted:
21 Feb 2005 12:23 PST
Expires: 23 Mar 2005 12:23 PST Question ID: 478250 |
How is the loss of biodiversity related to the loss of genetic diversity? |
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Re: Biology
From: eliteskillsdotcom-ga on 21 Feb 2005 13:08 PST |
Biodiversity means the diversity among a group, so, if the diversity among the group is decreasing, meaning that the people among the group are growing more and more alike, then the genetic diversity will decrease because people of like-type will mate as opposed to having more genetic diversity where there to be an increase in biodiversity. |
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Re: Biology
From: marhead-ga on 22 Feb 2005 02:19 PST |
Biodiversity describes the diversity of a system, genetic diversity describes the diversity of a species. Take a look at Kansas or Austrailia for example,I mean if Kansas is all (except for pockets of wildlife) corn fields, mice, crows, and foxes, it has a smaller degree of biodiversity than the rain forests of the Amazon of South America. (Please don't ask me to describe the dominant food web of the Amazon). But how does that relate to the loss of genetic diversity? Possibly a loss of bio (or ecological) diversity decreases the stresses necessary for genetic mutations to become successful. (eeww, Where's the spell check on this thing?) |
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Re: Biology
From: williamgunn-ga on 02 Mar 2005 23:09 PST |
Yeah marhead, take a look at Kansas. Perfect example of lack of genetic diversity. ;-) http://www.cnn.com/US/9908/12/kansas.evolution.flap/ In recent news: http://news.google.com/news?q=kansas+board+of+education http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/11025534.htm |
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Re: Biology
From: shreyaskaptan-ga on 05 Apr 2005 11:02 PDT |
Diversity results because of two things in particular: 1.The Genetic material 2.The environment In reference to your question. under circumstances of exactly similar environments all the biodiversity is caused only because of the genetic differences. Biodiversity we usually refer to by the morphological variations that are observed quite clearly by eye or by physiological variations that can be examined via study.These variations within a single specie occur because presense of different genes at a gene locus i.e. at the site on the DNA strand where the gene is normally present.These different genes are known as alleles. Presense of two or multiple alleles causes the variation in the phenotype i.e. the external appearance of an organism in terms of morphology or physiology. Now biodiversity arises just because this particular reason that the different species cannot mate with each other because of very large physiological and /or morphological differences.Also variations in the same specie may arise because of the different alleles that code for a given single trait (assuming the nigligible impact of environment). Thus if there is decrease in biodiversity, it will lead to loss of some paricular alleles or genes from the environment.This loss may be irrepairable because most alleles are generated via chance mutations.Thus yhis permenant loss will cause permenant disappearance some traits resulting into loss of genetic diversity. This may have very adverse effects on the ecology of the land as the organisms now may not be able to cope with the new diseases or natuaral disasters like ice ages. |
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