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To analyze: The three levels of biological diversity and the reason how human activities threaten each of these levels.
Introduction: The three levels of the biological diversity includes: species diversity, genetic diversity and ecosystem diversity. The increase in the human activity like cutting of forests, environmental pollution, hunting of animals had led to the changes in the climate, temperature and pressure of the ecological habitats and forests.
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