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CUET · BIOLOGY · PYQ PAPER 2025

Gause's 'Competitive Exclusion Principle' states that -

  1. A Two closely related species competing for the different resources cannot co-exist indefinitely and the competitively inferior one will be eliminated eventually.
  2. B Two distantly related species competing for the same resources cannot co-exist indefinitely and the competitively inferior one will be eliminated eventually.
  3. C Two closely related species competing for the same resources cannot co-exist indefinitely and the competitively inferior one will be eliminated eventually.
  4. D Two closely related species competing for the same resources can co-exist indefinitely and the competitively inferior one will be eliminated
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(C) Two closely related species competing for the same resources cannot co-exist indefinitely and the competitively inferior one will be eliminated eventually.

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Two closely related species competing for the same resources cannot co-exist indefinitely and the competitively inferior one will be eliminated eventually.