How many different species have been identified by science? How m...

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How many different species have been identified by science? How many are estimated to exist?

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Hello everyone. And in today's video we have the following problem. So which of the following statements is true regarding the number of different species? Remember that this different species is involved biodiversity. So we're really talking about the biodiversity of the world, the total number of different species that we have. So certain biodiversity indexes have shown that there are an estimate Of 8. million species existing in the world at the moment. Remember this is an estimate. We don't really know this as we have not found all of these species. In fact, we have only been able to find 1.2 million species up to date. So now these will make answer choices A and B. Both correct answer choices because approximately 8.7 million species are estimated to exist, which is what we see here. And out of these, only about 21.2 million Different species have been identified. Now. Since we have only identified 1.2 million species. This leaves 7.5 million species unidentified and it would mean that most of the species currently existing are unidentified, which is answer choice. See this is also a correct answer choice, which which makes all of our statements or all of our answer choices correct. Which means that answer choice. D. Is going to be your final answer. So thank you very much for sticking around until the end of this video. I really hope this helped you

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