The primary cause of the reduction in biodiversity, including variation at the genetic, species, and ecosystem levels, is …

Naturally occurring dry areas that are at risk of desertification cover about _____% of the world’s land area and are home to about 1 billion people.

When learning about biodiversity there are three levels of biodiversity that we will focus on. Which of the following is NOT one of those levels?

What do they call the strategy that pays landowners or communities to protect critical ecosystems and to be good stewards.

In the module, there was a video of paleoanthropologists going on a fossil dig. In what state (condition) did the scientists find the fossils?

According to the video lecture, Neanderthals died out recently enough to leave bone material to test for DNA.

Which type of ocean microorganism provides information on past climates?

Per the video lecture, if full fossilization occurs, scientists can still analyze the specimen for DNA.

Per the video lecture, if full fossilization occurs, scientists cannot analyze the specimen for DNA.

A “mineralized cast of what was once bone” was said in the video lecture to represent the definition for this term: _____________.   One word.