Forty years ago, rainforests once covered over 14% of the Earth’s land surface and now cover a mere 6%. Some sources state that every second we lose over an acre of this precious land containing nearly half the world’s species of plants, animals, and microorganisms to deforestation. One reason for the deforestation of rainforests has been to attain land for the purpose of agriculture. Humans have destroyed a vast diversity of species for the sake of growing eight basic grains. Growing only one type of species in a large area of land is known as a monoculture. Which of the following would not be a harmful side effect of monocultures? * 1 point extinction of native plant and animal species disease may lead to the elimination of the entire crop an increase in sulphur dioxide emissions leading to acid deposition loss of possible cures to diseases