BIOL367 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Chromista
9 Oct 2018
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Think of things as their use for us. Preservation is looking more outside of ourselves and not all about ourselves. Variety of living organisms from all sources and ecological complexes of which they are part; this includes diversity within species between species and ecosystems. When measuring biodiversity you need to state a specific area and time. Conservation biology should be preserving the little things we don"t see with the naked eye. Scientist are having trouble defining what exactly a species is. We don"t kno(cid:449) half of the insects that li(cid:448)e on earth. Insects and plants have been quite underestimated when it comes to biodiversity. Probably because we have a utilitarian view of them. Includes all the algae whose chloroplasts contain chlorophylls a and c. Described as the most complex ecosystem on earth. Some of the most complex natural ecosystems are. Almost every autoimmune disease is linked by research to the microbiome.
