Levels of Biological Organization and Diversity

The term biodiversity was introduced by Walter Rosen in 1986, includes all terrestrial, marine, and other aquatic life forms. It also covers diversity within species, between species, as well as the variations among ecosystems.

  • More than 70 per cent of all the species recorded are animals, while plants (including algae, fungi, bryophytes, gymnosperms and angiosperms) comprise no more than 22 per cent of the total.

Levels of Biological Organization and Diversity

In our biosphere immense diversity (or heterogeneity) exists not only at the species level but at all levels of biological organization ranging from macromolecules within cells to biomes.

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