Biologists Have Spent the Past 200 Years Identifying and Classifying

question 58

Multiple Choice

Biologists have spent the past 200 years identifying and classifying Earth's biodiversity; at this present time

• A) the exact number of species on Earth still remains unknown.
• B) the annual number of newly discovered species slightly exceeds the number becoming extinct.
• C) ninety percent of all species on Earth have been documented.
• D) a complete count of all the species on Earth has been completed.

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