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Diversity of living organisms is due to `:`

A

mutation

B

gradual change

C

long term evolutionary change

D

short term evolutionary change

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C

Though mutation provides the source of variation, the diversity in living beings is due to the natural selection of variations and consequent evolutionary change over a long periods of time.
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