Why Is It Important to Maintain Biodiversity

question 45

Multiple Choice

Why is it important to maintain biodiversity?

• A)To prevent habitat destruction
• B)To protect species richness
• C)To provide resources to humans
• D)To maintain genetic variation
• E)All answers are correct.

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Definitions:

ROM Chip

A type of non-volatile storage that permanently stores instructions for hardware initialization. The data on it cannot be modified or can only be modified slowly or with difficulty.

Supercomputers

High-performance computing systems designed for complex computational tasks, often used in scientific and engineering calculations.

UNIX

An operating system originally conceived in 1969 by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie of AT&T’s Bell Labs. In 1974, the UNIX code was rewritten in the standard programming language C. Today there are various commercial versions of UNIX.

BIOS

Basic Input/Output System, a firmware interface that initializes and tests hardware during the startup process, prior to the operating system loading.