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**Survey of Biodiversity**

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__Essential Questions__ 1. How is life defined? 2. What are the characteristics shared by living things? 3. How many species are there and how many have there been? 4. Why are there so many species? 5. Why are only a small % of all species still present today? 6. How do biologists organize biodiversity? 7. What characteristics are used in classifying biodiversity? 8. What is the relationship between evolution and taxonomy today? 9. How does DNA reveal evolutionary histories? 10. What are the hallmark traits of the 3 domains and 6 kingdoms of life?

Required Readings from Modern Biology (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2002)
§ Chapter 1: Section 1-2 § Chapter 18: Sections 18-1, 18-2, 18-3 media type="custom" key="1812751" media type="youtube" key="e-txR1WSPBs&hl=en&fs=1" height="344" width="425" E.O Wilson discusses biodiversity on earth and how little we know.