Explain the concepts of diversity and unity as they apply to life on Earth. Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s)
Life on Earth exhibits unity and diversity: diversity because Earth may house as many as 100
million different species (kinds) of living organisms; unity because all species share the same
underlying mechanisms for capturing and storing energy, manufacturing proteins, and
transmitting information between generations. This idea is especially important: In a sense,
all life on Earth is fundamentally the same; it’s just packaged in different ways. All Earth’s
life-forms are related; all apparently share a common origin. Earth and life have grown old
together, generation by persistent generation, across some 4 billion years.
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