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What is common that we all need? Ecology reveals an answer.

Home in eastern India, Tamil-Nadu Province, JVS, 1989.

 

there is a ladder of commonality

genes

genetic diversity

species

speciation

biotic communities

ecosystem variety

 

The diversity we see around us arises from?

Essential nutrients of which all things living are composed must be recycled over and over again.

C - N - H - O - P - K - S

 

The Carbon cycle is key to life on earth.

 

The nitrogen and phosphorus and sulphur cycles are key to life's variability and resilience.

  • arranged by the RNA proto-organism + proteins + double helix [DNA archive]
  • DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid
  • Sugar, phosphate, nitrogen, oxygen, & carbon core = codons that make genes
  • genes create proteins
  • 30,000 genes ----------------------------> in a genome
  • reproductively distinct and isolated genomes form a specie's gene pool
  • species adapt competitively or cooperatively by
    • adopting different behaviors
    • partitioning resources in an ecosystem

 

Protecting a commons