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What makes an area a biodiversity hot spot?

a. high diversity and medicine
b. high diversity and food
c. many endemic species and medicine
d. many endemic species and high diversity

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The answer is b - high diversity and food.

Having a high starting diversity is an absolute prerequisite for a certain area to even start having a lot of different organisms living in the same spot. The other prerequisite is having a lot of food. This enables the nourishment of big numbers of different species which enable high biodiversity.
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