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    Biodiversity and The Healthy Society

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    Biodiversity refers to the variety of life on Earth and includes genetic diversity, species diversity, and ecosystem diversity. It is essential to human survival as it provides food, medicine, and raw materials. The Philippines has very rich biodiversity but it faces threats like habitat destruction, pollution, invasive species, climate change, and overexploitation. Biodiversity loss can be prevented through legislation, conservation efforts, education, and sustainable practices. Evolution is the underlying mechanism of biodiversity and occurs through natural or artificial selection over time.

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    Biodiversity refers to the variety of life on Earth and includes genetic diversity, species diversity, and ecosystem diversity. It is essential to human survival as it provides food, medicine, and raw materials. The Philippines has very rich biodiversity but it faces threats like habitat destruction, pollution, invasive species, climate change, and overexploitation. Biodiversity loss can be prevented through legislation, conservation efforts, education, and sustainable practices. Evolution is the underlying mechanism of biodiversity and occurs through natural or artificial selection over time.

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    BIODIVERSITY

    AND THE
    HEALTHY
    SOCIETY
    WHAT IS BIODIVERSITY?
     Biodiversity or biological diversity, is a
    vast concept that means a lot of things.
     First, the living organisms are numerous.
     Second, living organisms are abundant in
    habitats supplying all the foods and
    requirements that they need.
     Third, organisms have different growth and
    metabolic characteristics.
     Fourth, biodiversity is essential to human
    survival.
    BIODIVERSITY
     Is the variety of life in the simplest term.
    It is the contraction of two words –
    biological diversity, which refers to the
    number, variety and variability of living
    organisms.
     It serves as sources of food and energy
    in addition to water and clean.
    Three components of biodiversity
    include
     Genetic diversity
     Species diversity
     Community or Ecological diversity
    GENETIC DIVERSITY
     Refers to variation or differences in the
    genes of a species of individuals.
    SPECIES DIVERSITY
     Diversity of the number of species.
     This involves a combination of species
    number and their relative abundance in
    a particular area.
    COMMUNITY OR ECOLOGICAL
    DIVERSITY
     Or ecological diversity refers to a variety
    of ecosystems in a given region.

     Ecosystem is a biological community


    including all of the abiotic factors the
    affect them.
    ECOSYSTEMS
     AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS may be
    freshwater, marine, estuary and coastal.
     TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM may be
    grassland, forest, desert and the like.

     Their survival and interactions are mediated


    and influenced by a variety of nonliving or
    abiotic factors such as air, water,
    temperature, humidity, pH, light intensity
    and the such.
    IMPORTANCE OF BIODIVERSITY

    Biodiversity affects humans on various


    aspects: economy, health and culture,
    aesthetic and environmental issues.

    The fundamental importance of


    biodiversity is that it is our source of foods,
    clothing, shelter and medicine.
    -Biodiversity is also a source of raw
    materials for industrial activities.
    Zoonosis
    STATUS OF PHILIPPINE
    BIODIVERSITY
     The Philippines being a tropical and
    archipelagic country has very rich and
    diverse flora and fauna. Considered as a
    biodiversity hotspot, the country attracts
    tourists and scientists to come over and
    examine its natural resources.
    THREATS TO
    BIODIVERSITY
    1.HABITAT DESTRUCTION
    2. POLLUTION
    3. INTRODUCTION OF NON-NATIVE
    SPECIES AND NEW VARIETIES
    4. GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
    5. EXPLOITATION
    6. OVERPOPULATION
    CONSERVING
    BIODIVERSITY
    HOW CAN WE SAVE SOMETHING
    THAT WE ALREADY LOSS?
    How can biodiversity loss be prevented?

    Can be prevented through appropriate


    research, government legislation and
    awareness and education and sustainable
    use of biodiversity.
    Government legislations ( laws and orders
    to save biodiversity in the Philippines.)
    TECHNIQUES IN CONSERVING
    BIODIVERSITY
    1. Cell and tissue culture allow the
    propagation/multiplication of organisms
    at a rapid pace.
    2. Cryopreservation technology.
    3. Advances in molecular biology and
    genetics
    THE ROLE OF EVOLUTION IN
    BIODIVERSITY
     Evolution is how the genetic composition of
    species changes over time. It is underlying
    mechanism of biodiversity,
     Evolution may be microevolution or
    macroevolution.
     Microevolution is the evolution below the
    species level
     Macroevolution is the type that gives rise to
    an new species or larger groups such as
    new genera, family, class or phyla.
     Evolution may happen through artificial
    selection or by natural selection.
     Evolution may also be slow or rapid
    depending on the rate of environmental
    change.
     In the course of evolution, speciation
    and extinction may happen and dictate
    biodiversity.
     Extinction is the dying out or termination
    of a species. This occurs due to
    environmental foces.
    THE END

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