The fish count mobilizes and trains volunteer divers to identify and document fish diversity and population trends.
Many biologists see cloning as a last resort since, unlike sex, it does not increase the genetic diversity of a population.
Travelling through the country, you begin to glimpse the complex influences that have shaped it: Buddhism, the legacy of the British Empire, the ethnic diversity of the population, and the long imperial history of the Burmese themselves.
"I have every belief that we will ultimately be increasing the barn owl population of Somerset and helping a diversity of other wildlife along the way, " Mr Sperring added.
In the six years since I have taught there, Rockwell Elementary and the surrounding community have seen tremendous growth in diversity with the ESOL population growing ten-fold and the Hispanic population more than quadrupling.
Launched in 1990 to promote diversity in the immigrant population, the green-card lottery is now open to people from almost anywhere in the world, except countries that already boast a large number of nationals in the U.S., including Mexico, China, India and the Philippines.
She made a decision to choose an integrated environment that had more diversity in both curriculum and population.
Genes change slowly, over many generations, while the diversity of phonemes amid a population group can change rapidly as language evolves.
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The population has recovered, but the genetic diversity has not recovered so that all the Tasmanian devils that exist are so similar to one another genetically that their immune systems don't seem to be able to tell one from another.
First, he says, their understanding of cultural diversity will be useful as the American population becomes more heterogeneous.
In the crowd, iPods and designer sunglasses vie with headscarves and prayer beads as the accessory of choice, showcasing the diversity of the 13-million-strong local population.
Diversity is on the increase, but almost more significantly is the population growth -- families moving to the South from other parts of the country in search of an improved quality of life and job opportunities.
Although sex increases diversity between individuals in a group of offspring, by making them different both from their parents and from each other, it decreases the diversity found within individuals, by mixing up the genes in a population and spreading them around.
Half of the city's population comes from immigrant backgrounds, Solidance notes, and the city supports a "good level" of diversity acceptance.
But there are genes that are more likely to occur in Europeans, who are descended from a relatively tiny population that made its way up the continent, than in Africans. (There is also far more genetic diversity in Africa than anywhere else.) And sometimes these genes are medically important enough that guessing at their presence based on skin color is worthwhile to some doctors.
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