Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion $A$ and the other is labelled as Reason $R$:
Assertion $(A)$: Recent studies do not entirely support the Gause's 'Competitive Exclusion Principle' in nature.
Reason $(R)$: Recent studies of competition rule out the occurrence of interspecific competition in nature.
In the light of the above statements,choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Assertion $(A)$: Recent studies do not entirely support the Gause's 'Competitive Exclusion Principle' in nature.
Reason $(R)$: Recent studies of competition rule out the occurrence of interspecific competition in nature.
In the light of the above statements,choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
- AAssertion and Reason both are correct but Reason is not the correct explanation of Assertion.
- BAssertion is correct but Reason is incorrect.
- CAssertion is incorrect but Reason is correct.
- DAssertion and Reason both are correct and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion.
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