What Is the Main Reason That the Field of Conservation

question 49

Multiple Choice

What is the main reason that the field of conservation biology has developed?

• A) The current rates of extinction on Earth due to human related factors.
• B) Humans looking for new methods of obtaining resources from the natural environment.
• C) The consolidation of multiple fields of science into one in an attempt to be more efficient.
• D) As a means of monitoring the stability of ecosystems.

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Definitions:

Inborn

Characteristics, traits, or abilities present at birth, not acquired or learned through experience.

Environment

The surrounding conditions or influences that affect the growth, development, or existence of organisms or things.

Dizygotic

Pertaining to twins that are born from separate eggs fertilized by separate sperm cells, resulting in them being genetically similar as siblings rather than identical.

Monozygotic

Referring to twins that are genetically identical because they were formed from a single fertilized egg that split into two.