Assertion – Daphnia populations in a water body at different seasons of an year showed marked variations in their body morphology
Reason – Cyclomorphosis in some planktonic organisms is influenced by the variations in temperatures prevailing in their water bodies at different seasons
Daphnia, a genus of small planktonic crustaceans. Cyclomorphosis is the occurrence of seasonal changes in the phenotype of an organism through successive generations. It occurs in small aquatic invertebrates like Daphnia. Here cyclomorphosis is influenced by the variations in temperature prevailing in the water bodies at different seasons.