Biodiversity and its Conservation Question 24
24. Reason of diversity in living beings is due to
(a) mutation
(b) long term evolutionary change
(c) gradual change
(d) short term evolutionary change
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Answer : b
Hints & Solutions
(b) Diversity is due to the long term evolutionary changes. Adaptability to continuous changes in environmental conditions is important for natural selection of variants and variations generation after generation leading to emergence of diverse descendants.
