In the following questions a statement of assertion (A) is followed by a statement of reason (R).
A: Sacred forests are refuge of rare, endangered and endemic taxa.
R: The land of sacred forests is fertile.
1. Both Assertion & Reason are true and the reason is the correct explanation of the assertion.
2. Both Assertion & Reason are true but the reason is not the correct explanation of the assertion.
3. Assertion is true statement but Reason is false.
4. Both Assertion and Reason are false statements.
Statements I: | Species confined to a particular region and are not found anywhere else are called endemic species |
Statement II: | Keystone species are usually abundant in an ecosystem |
(a) | Plants | (b) | Invertebrates |
(c) | Fishes | (d) | Mammals |
(e) | Birds |
1. | (a) > (b) > (e) > (d) > (c) | 2. | (a) > (c) > (d) > (b) > (e) |
3. | (b) > (a) > (e) > (d) > (c) | 4. | (b) > (a) > (c) > (e) > (d) |
1. | A significant reduction in the current rate of biodiversity loss. |
2. | Declaration of more biodiversity hotspots. |
3. | Increase in agricultural production |
4. | Collection and preservation of seeds of different genetic strains of commercially important plants. |