Question

n ecology, a measure of diversity of a species in a certain population is called the diversity index. The diversity index D is defined as the probability that any two organisms selected at random from the population will be from different species. a. If every organism in a population is from the same species, what is the value of the diversity index D

Answer 1

Answer: the value of the diversity index D is Zero (0)

Explanation:

Just as the meaning of diversity index is boldly explained in the question, it is the probability that randomly selected organism from a population are from a different species.

Now if the organisms are all from the same species in a population then it is impossible to select two organisms from different species.

That is, we can never select two organisms that are not from the same species.

Hence, we cant fulfil or meet the definition of diversity index .

Therefore in this situation the value of our diversity index D will be exactly zero, D = 0.