Biodiversity, also called biological diversity, the variety of life found in a place on Earth or, often, the total variety of life on Earth.
In addition, he challenged existing paradigms that held that biodiversity (the total variety of life on Earth) continuously increases over time by means of evolutionary forces; he suggested that incomplete knowledge of the more-distant past may have created an illusion of ever-increasing biodiversity.
Results and conclusion: The vegetable variety was low in homemade as well as in commercial meals without any differences in total variety at 6 and 9 months of age.
A related, but different challenge is that we do not know a respondents total variety of consumption within each category, e.g. whether 'mostly organic fruit' refers to only apples - or a whole range of different fruits.
Our dataset differed from the published one in two principal points: both the clinical characteristics of recruited patients (advanced stage as compared to mixed composition) and the population of blood cells from which RNA was extracted (purified leukocytes as compared to the total variety of blood cells).
In total, eight varieties of dates, all local to Southern Tunisia, featuring three different development stages were measured by HPLC and GC-MC techniques by El Arem and colleagues [ 10, 12].
A total of 147 varieties from Myanmar and 80 varieties from the reference set were genotyped with 19 markers.
The surface area of land used for each variety in the village was calculated based on the estimated number of plants of each variety by interviewing 15 farmers (a total of 56 varieties corresponding to 80,000 individual yam plants).
Between 1972 and 2001, the number of products imported by America doubled, but the total number of varieties, as counted by the authors, tripled.
In both varieties, total biomass was higher during the major season than the minor season.
