1. | is the primary producer. |
2. | has no significant impact on the community. |
3. | plays a crucial role in maintaining community structure. |
4. | is a rare species that must be preserved immediately. |
Assertion(A): | The logistic growth model is considered a more realistic one for a population growing under natural conditions. |
Reason (R): | Resources for growth for most animal populations are finite and become limiting sooner or later. |
1. |
Both (A) and (R) are True and (R) correctly explains (A). |
2. |
Both (A) and (R) are True but (R) does not correctly explain (A). |
3. |
(A) is True; (R) is False |
4. |
Both (A) and (R) are False |
1. | the population grows in an exponential or geometric fashion |
2. | the population grows in an arithmetic fashion |
3. | the population stops growing in size |
4. | the population declines in size |
1. | an organism inflicts harm to another organism without any costs or benefits received by itself. |
2. | two species interact but do not affect each other. |
3. | one organism benefits and the other organism is neither benefited nor harmed. |
4. | species derive a mutual benefit. |
I: | act as ‘conduits’ for energy transfer across trophic levels |
II: | keep prey populations under control |
III: | help in maintaining species diversity in a community |
Consider the given two statements:
Assertion (A): |
Predators in nature are ‘prudent’. |
Reason (R): |
Prey species have evolved various defenses to lessen the impact of predation |
1. |
Both (A) and (R) are True and (R) correctly explains (A). |
2. |
Both (A) and (R) are True but (R) does not correctly explain (A). |
3. |
(A) is True; (R) is False |
4. |
Both (A) and (R) are False |
I: | For plants, herbivores are the predators. |
II: | Nearly 75 percent of all insects are known to be phytophagous. |
III: | Thorns in plants are the most common morphological means of defense against herbivory. |
IV: | Cardiac glycosides produced by certain plants can be very detrimental to the health of herbivores. |
Consider the given two statements:
Assertion(A): |
The Abingdon tortoise in Galapagos Islands became extinct within a decade of introduction of goats on the island. |
Reason (R): |
Introduction of goats also introduced a new parasite that killed Abingdon tortoise. |
1. |
Both (A) and (R) are True and (R) correctly explains (A). |
2. |
Both (A) and (R) are True but (R) does not correctly explain (A). |
3. |
(A) is True; (R) is False |
4. |
Both (A) and (R) are False |
1. | superior species to exclude the inferior species from the habitat. |
2. | co-existence of competing species. |
3. | reproductive isolation and speciation. |
4. | competing species to grow exponentially. |