Question

Assertion : "The Biological Species" concept helps us to ask how species are formed.
Reason : The concept of biological species focuses our attention on the question of how reproductive isolation comes about.

• A. If both the assertion and the reason are true and the reason is a correct explanation of the assertion
• B. If both the assertion and reason are true but the reason is not a correct explanation of the assertion
• C. If the assertion is true but the reason is false
• D. If both the assertion and reason are false
• E. If the assertion is false but reason is true

Answer 1

The correct option is A If both the assertion and the reason are true and the reason is a correct explanation of the assertion

Ernst Mayr proposed the biological species concept, which defines species as groups of actually or potentially inter-breeding natural populations which are reproductively isolated from other such groups.