Biodiversity enhances human food security because it ________

A) decreases the number of predators
B) is a potential source of new food items or new genetic varieties of existing foods
C) increases the number of available pathogens
D) means that there is genetic uniformity
E) reduces the number of pollinators available to any one plant species


B

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