Explain diversity in living organisms.
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Explanation:
i. There are various types of living organisms existing on the earth, ranging from unicellular microscopic organisms to large multicellular plants and animals.
ii. Some of them are prokaryotic in nature, while some are eukaryotes.
iii. There are about 5 − 30 million species of plants and animals on earth.
iv. They exhibit a great deal of variation in shape, size, structure, mode of nutrition, mode of reproduction, etc.
v. They live or grow in different climatic conditions.
The total number of flora and fauna in earth surface is called as diversity.
➜ The other definition for diversity is variability among the living organisms from all sources.
➜ The total number of species which are identified and described is 1.7 millions to 1.8 millions species.
➜ And according to IUCN, the total number of plants species and animal species which have been identified and described are more than 1.5 million.