Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Gause's 'Competitive Exclusion Principle' states that two closely related species competing for the same resources cannot co-exist indefinitely and competitively inferior one will be eliminated eventually.
Statement II: In general, carnivores are more adversely affected by competition than herbivores.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
- A
Both Statement I and Statement II are true.
- B
Both Statement I and Statement II are false.
- C
Statement I is correct but Statement II is false.
- D
Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is true.
Gause's principle is correctly stated in I — the inferior competitor is excluded over time. Statement II is the wrong way around: herbivores, not carnivores, generally feel competition more sharply because their food resource (plant biomass) is divisible and contested by many species.
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