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Forests are "biodiversity hot spot”. Justify this statement.

“Forests are 'biodiversity hot spots '. The statement is completely justified because forest consists of different life-forms such as bacteria, fungi, plants etc, and can be termed as biodiversity hot-spot as biodiversity of a particular area is defined by no. of species found in the place.


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