Q4 / 294 · NTA Abhyas (NEET) 2020 · Botany · Biodiversity and its Conservation
Based on the different reasons for conserving biodiversity, choose the incorrect one from the following.
- AThe ethical argument for conserving biodiversity relates to what we owe to nature and our contribution to protecting it.
- BThe most obvious arguments for conserving the biodiversity are made through the narrowly utilitarian approach.
- Correct answerCThe benefits of pollination are argued as a reason through the narrowly utilitarian approach.
- DOne of the major benefits reaped from plants are medicines, from which more than 25 per cent of the drugs currently sold in the market worldwide are derived.
Solution
The broadly utilitarian argument says that biodiversity plays a major role in many ecosystem services that nature provides. Pollination (without which plants cannot give us fruits or seeds) is another service, ecosystems provide through pollinators layer – bees, bumblebees, birds and bats.
Hence, the correct answer is option: 'C'.