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Published on: August 21, 2026
Read the assertion and reason carefully to mark the correct option out of the options given below:
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A
Assertion : Community with more species tends to be more stable than those with fewer species → True.
Reason (R): More species means less year-to-year variation in total biomass → True, and this is exactly why diverse communities are more stable.
Both A and R are true, and R correctly explains A.
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