Genetic diversity
Genetic diversity ischaracteristicecosystems that describes an attribute whichcommonly heldbe advantageoussurvival -- that theremany different versionsotherwise similar organisms. For example,Irish potato famine can be attributedpart tofact that there were so few different genetic strainspotatos incountry, makingeasierone virusinfectkill much ofcrop.
A related usagethis word was coineddescribecurrent networked computing environment;striking majority ofoverall numbercomputers connected toInternetworkstationsservers running versions ofMicrosoft Windows operating system, manywhichvulnerablesimilar attacks. Thisin contrast toearly days ofnet, when there wasmuch more even distributionoperating systemshardware/processor types,it was concomitantly much more difficultcreatebroadly applicable attack.
