What is the importance of understanding reproduction and heritability in ecoliteracy?

It helps people to understand the rates of recovery or adjustment that organisms in communities must undergo to survive. This is important because it presents us with both a view of time from a life-based perspective. It also helps us think about how important or impactful our actions might be.

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