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1 1. What, exactly, does “diversity” mean to you?

2 2. How are organisms different from one another, and how would you measure objectively (or judge subjectively) how different two or more organisms are? Can you name two animals that are about as different from one another as, say, Escherichia coli and Proteus vulgaris?

3 3. If you had isolated a new microbe, what properties would you examine to determine what kind of organism it is? Would this tell you what it is related to evolutionarily?

4 4. What metabolic pathways can you think of that are unique to specific groups of organisms?