Question

Assertion (A): Population has certain attributes which an individual organism does not have.

Reason (R): Population is a group of people living in well defined area, at a particular time.

Options

• Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.

• Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.

• A is true but R is false.

• A is false but R is true.

Answer 1

Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.

Explanation:

A population has attributes such as birth rate, death rate, sex ratio and population density, which an individual organism does not have. Therefore, Assertion (A) is true.

A population is a group of individuals of the same species living in a well-defined area at a particular time. Therefore, Reason (R) is true.

However, R does not explain why a population has attributes that an individual does not have.

Hence, Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.