Biology : XII-CH15 – Biodiversity and Conservation – Assertion and Reason

Read the assertion and reason carefully to mark the correct option.

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Read the assertion and reason carefully to mark the correct option out of the options given below:

Assertion: Removal of key stone from an ecosystem leads to destruction of ecosystem.

Reason: Keystone species drive major ecosystem functions.

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not correct explanation of the assertion

(A) is true but (R) is false

Both (A) and (R) are false

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is correct explanation of the assertion

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Read the assertion and reason carefully to mark the correct option out of the options given below:

Assertion: Tropics have greater biological diversity.

Reason: Tropics have long evolutionary time for species diversification is one of the reasons.

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is correct explanation of the assertion

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not correct explanation of the assertion

(A) is true but (R) is false

Both (A) and (R) are false

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Read the assertion and reason carefully to mark the correct option out of the options given below:

Assertion: Habitat loss and fragmentaion is the most important cause driving animals and plants to extinction.

Reason: Habitat loss and fragmentaion causes alien species invasion.

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is correct explanation of the assertion

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not correct explanation of the assertion

(A) is true but (R) is false

Both (A) and (R) are false

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Read the assertion and reason carefully to mark the correct option out of the options given below:

Assertion: The diversity of microbes may run into millions.

Reason: If we use biochemical or molecular criteria to estimate microbial species.

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is correct explanation of the assertion

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not correct explanation of the assertion

(A) is true but (R) is false

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Read the assertion and reason carefully to mark the correct option out of the options given below:

Assertion: Bioremediation is the use of living organisms, usually prokaryotes, fungi plants, to detoxify polluted ecosystems.

Reason: Biological augmentation uses organisms to add essential materials to a degraded ecosystem.

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is correct explanation of the assertion

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(A) is true but (R) is false

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Read the assertion and reason carefully to mark the correct option out of the options given below:

Assertion: Current estimates do not give any figure for prokaryotes taxonomic.

Reason: Conventional taxonomic methods are not suitable for identifying microbial species.

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is correct explanation of the assertion

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not correct explanation of the assertion

(A) is true but (R) is false

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Read the assertion and reason carefully to mark the correct option out of the options given below:

Assertion: Species richness is also function of the area of a region.

Reason: The species area relationship is generally a rectangle hyperbolic function.

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is correct explanation of the assertion

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(A) is true but (R) is false

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Read the assertion and reason carefully to mark the correct option out of the options given below:

Assertion: Ex situ conservation is carried out in biosphere reserves, national parks and sanctuaries.

Reason: NGOs are involved in the maintenance of these protected areas.

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is correct explanation of the assertion

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not correct explanation of the assertion

(A) is true but (R) is false

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Read the assertion and reason carefully to mark the correct option out of the options given below:

Assertion: Stable community must be either resistant or resilient to occasional disturbances.

Reason: Stable community not shows too much variation in productivity from year to year.

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is correct explanation of the assertion

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not correct explanation of the assertion

(A) is true but (R) is false

Both (A) and (R) are false

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Read the assertion and reason carefully to mark the correct option out of the options given below:

Assertion: There are 34 biodiversity hotspots in the world

Reason: High level of species richness is a criterion for selection of a biodiversity hotspot.

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is correct explanation of the assertion

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not correct explanation of the assertion

(A) is true but (R) is false

Both (A) and (R) are false

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