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One way to describe biodiversity is to say that it is the variation of plants, animals and other lifeforms within an ecosystem, biome or the earth itself. While also used for other purposes, as explained below, biodiversity is frequently used to measure how healthy a given ecosystem may be since the wildlife and plants of a healthy ecosystem tend to be more diverse than those of an unhealthy ecosystem.

Biodiversity is also described as some of the fascinating varieties of organisms and complex ecological relationships that give the biosphere its unique, productive characteristics.

Biodiversity is represented by the number of various species of plants and animals within a given environment, and how those species can be maintained.

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well bio means life and diversity means change and in our world of living things there are a lot of animals insects that live and we compare them by a word called classification. classification tells the difference between different animals (e.g) a dog and a snake. example first a dog has ears has legs and has fur and legs which makes him a mammal which separates the dog and snake from each other because a snake is a reptile and a dog is a mammal so that's classification!

even if it's the same kind of animal like a German Shepard and a bull dog they are still different because that's why bio diversity became in science it doesn't matter about how the animal looks it's about what characteristics it has from another etc !

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Biodiversity or biological diversity is the variation of different life forms within a given ecosystem or for the entire Earth. Biodiversity is often a measure of the health of biological systems to indicate if there could be a danger that species get extinct. Variation helps species live in a population, therefore creating Biodiversity.

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the number and variety of organisms in a given area

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A definition from dictionary.com says, "The number and variety of organisms found within a specified geographic region".

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