$A$ : In secondary productivity, no new organic matter is formed.

$R$ : It is only utilisation of part of food manufactured by primary producers in building of consumer biomass.

  • A

    Assertion and Reason both are correct and also correct explanation.

  • B

    Assertion and Reason both are correct but not explanation of assertion.

  • C

    Assertion is correct, but Reason is incorrect.

  • D

    Both Assertion and Reason are incorrect.

Similar Questions

A wolf has just eaten a lamb when tiger saw the wolf attacked it and consumed it. The tiger is in ecological terms

Distinguish between 

$(a)$ Litter and detritus

$(b)$ Primary and secondary productivity

The dominant second trophic level, in a lake ecosystem, is

Assertion : In a food chain, members of successive higher levels are fewer in number.
Reason : Number of organisms at any trophic level depends upon the availability of organisms which serve as food at the lower level.

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