(a) What is El Nino effect? Explain how it accounts for biodiversity loss.
(b) Explain any three measures that you as an individual would take, to reduce environmental pollution.
Mention the kind of biodiversity of more than a thousand varieties of mangoes in India represent. How is it possible?
(a) Why should we conserve biodiversity? How can we do it?
(b) Explain the importance of biodiversity hot-spots and sacred groves.
Differentiate between in-situ and ex-situ approaches of conservation / of biodiversity.
In-situ conservation | Ex-situ conservation |
In this type the conservation is done in the natural environment itself. | In this type the organism are conserved in man-made set-up outside their natural habitat. |
Natural park, Sanctuaries | Zoos and botanical gardens |
The cell division involved in gamete formation is not of the same type in different organisms. Justify.