Question

Assertion (A): Competitive exclusion principle is the tendency for competition to bring about an ecological separation of closely related, or otherwise similar species.

Reason (R): If two species compete for the same resources, they could avoid competition by choosing different times for feeding or different foraging patterns.

Options

• Both assertion (A) and reason (R) are true, and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.

• Both assertion (A) and reason (R) are true, but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.

• Assertion (A) is true but reason (R) is false.

• Both assertion (A) and reason (R) are false.

Answer 1

Both assertion (A) and reason (R) are true, but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.

Explanation:

The assertion and reason are both true, but the assertion describes resource partitioning rather than competitive exclusion. The reason explains how competing species can partition resources and coexist.