Concept of biodiversity

October 11, 2024

Biodiversity, Its Concept, Values, Loss, and Causes of Loss

An association of all the plants at a particular place is called a Plant Community and the association of all the animals at the same place is called an Animal Community. Both the plant and animal communities inhabit a particular place living completely merged and interacting among them. Members of a community not only interact with the members of other communities, they interact with the members of their community and with the physical environment around them, as well.

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December 26, 2020 Recommended

Kalmegh: The Drug for All Ailments

Kirata, Kalmegh or Chiraita is a wild herb with bitter taste. It grows in the wild in forests, wastelands, and along roadsides. It is popularly known as the king of bitters.

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February 15, 2021 Recommended

The Wise Owl: Let’s Protect Owl

Most of us have seen owls in our surroundings. Owls are hard to be seen in natural settings because they usually remain active during nights only.

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December 23, 2021 Recommended

Ecosystem and its components

The total area where living beings are found is called as biosphere. It can be divided into many small independent units called as Ecosystem. In fact, the unit of biosphere which incorporates many types of microorganisms, plants and animals, physical factors like soil, water, air etc. interacting among themselves is called as ecosystem

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December 17, 2023 Recommended

Processes of Life

All those processes that maintain the body of an organism collectively are called as life processes. These processes principally include Nutrition, Respiration, Internal Transport, and Excretion. Some other processes of life like control and coordination, Reproduction, Heredity and Evolution etc. are essentially found in living beings but they are not directly related to processes of life. Hence, these may or may not be regarded as life processes

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July 1, 2022 Recommended

Environmental Indicators that We Observe

Anthills show the quality of soil.

A substance, factor, change, living being or a system that quantifies and simplifies phenomena and helps in understanding complex realities, is called as indicator.

It tells us something about changes in a system. There are many types of indicators some of which are- Financial Indicators, Poverty Indicators, Health Indicators, Environmental Indicators, and Indicators of Sustainable Development.

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December 25, 2020 Recommended

Some Benefits of Eating Cauliflowers

Cauliflower is a beautiful compact snow ball like vegetable if it is white. It remains surrounded by soft and long foliage.

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May 8, 2021 Recommended

How does Nutrition take place in Human Beings?

In a human being the ingestion of food is brought about in mouth where it is crushed into fine pieces by teeth.

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December 27, 2020 Recommended

Our Environment has a Limit of Tolerance

We have been hearing about environmental pollution, loss of biodiversity, energy crisis, and the sustainable environment since long. So many things have already been infused in school syllabi as well. But how many of us really apply in our real life the things about which we have read in our classes? If you collect yourselves and think seriously, you may find that you are still not as careful as you are supposed to be.

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May 3, 2021 Recommended

How do Organisms get Their Food?

Mode of nutrition through which an organism depends on other organisms for food due to its inability to synthesise food is called as heterotrophic nutrition.

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September 15, 2021 Recommended

Questions and Answers on Reproduction Biology Class X

What is the importance of DNA copying in reproduction?

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November 30, 2020 Recommended

Integrated Forest Conservation- Public-Private Ownership

In the new strategy of the Forest Management, local public is allowed to be involved in conservation and management of forests with the government. This strategy is called as Integrated Forest Conservation and Management.

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