Biodiversity at your Doorstep

This is a very interesting and brilliant question. Is diversity something to do with diversity of abiotic factors?

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Do all snails live on land? What is the respiratory organ of a snail?

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Lets explore the causes of this ‘decrease’? That will give us a clue.

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Should we conserve them? Can they conserve themselves?

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Can you also write about the design of the microscope made?

The cause of the biological decrease can include various reasons. Some of the following are listed below :-

  1. Habitat destruction
  2. Global warming
  3. Pollution
  4. Human overpopulation
  5. Invasive species
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So even after looking at all these causes what can be a very basic yet very effective measure to conserve the biodiversity around the globe?

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Yes, they can conserve themselves but the interference of the human population and causes like climatic changes affects them. so if we want them to conserve themselves we will have to minimise our negative interference in their lifestyle.

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As we found out through observation and experiments, we found out that snails are able to survive in water as well as land. Most snails breathe through gills and their skin.

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Aquatic and algae eating snails are of course able to breathe underwater as they reside here and breathe using their gills. Terrestrial snails such as your average garden snail however cannot breathe

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Thiomargarita namibiens is the largest microorganism

@Saksham
If they don’t breathe, then how do they survive?!

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A total of 1.3million species have been identified but the truth is there are many more species living

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Abiotic factors of an ecosystem are temperature, humidityand all these support the growth of the microorganisms but it can also reduce them them some microorganisms cannot survive very high or low temperature.

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They cannot breathe underwater but from the air.

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These organisms are part of Phylum Rotifera. They are commonly called Rotifers. They feed on microscopic algae and are great contributers to the nutrient cycling.

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What is the size of this organism?

The size is about 0.1- 0.3 mm. It can be also seen from naked eyes

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To attract certain organisms present in the soil. Now which organisms can be present in the soil spread on the agar plate?

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If it can be seen from the naked eye, why do we call it a microorganism? Is there any criteria under which an organism fits that we can call it a microbe?

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