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Published on: August 21, 2026
Statement I: Carbon constitutes 49 per cent of dry weight of living organisms.
Statement II: 1 per cent carbon is found dissolved in oceans of total quantity of global carbon and atmosphere contains about 71 per cent of total global carbon.
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B
Carbon forms about 49% of the dry weight of living organisms, so Statement I is correct.
However, the distribution of global carbon is wrongly stated in Statement II (atmosphere and ocean percentages are incorrect), so it is false.
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