Answer:
°Draws attention to the magnitude and importance of threatened biodiversity.
°Identifies and documents those species most in need of conservation action.
°Provides an index of the decline of biodiversity.
Establishes a baseline from which to monitor the future °status of species.
Answer:
D) Competition between organisms
Explanation:
Random mating between organisms, absence of any factor of evolution (mutation, recombination, gene flow, migration etc.) and a large population size serve to maintain the allele frequency and thereby the phenotype frequency over generations. However, competition between organisms for any natural resource leads to natural selection of "better competing organisms" and increases their phenotype frequency in the population.
Feedback loops are biological mechanisms whereby homeostasis is maintained. This occurs when the product or output of an event or reaction changes the organism's response to that reaction. Positive feedback occurs to increase the change or output: the result of a reaction is amplified to make it occur more quickly.
