WB JEE Medical WB JEE Medical Solved Paper-2015

  • question_answer
    An area is declared as Hot Spot when

    A)  it has 1500 or more endemic species and 75% of its original habitat is lost

    B)  it has 1500 or more vertebrate species and 75% of its original habitat is lost

    C)  it has more than 2000 species of plants

    D)  most of the species inhabiting the area is facing the risk of extinction

    Correct Answer: A

    Solution :

     Biodiversity hots spots are areas rich inendemic plants and contains a high diversity of species. They should have more than 1500 species (>0.5% of total worlds population) of vascular plants as endemics, nearing 60% of worlds plant, bird, animals, reptiles and amphibian species that are under tremendous threat having west more than 70% of their primary habitat.


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