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Assertion: In most ecosystem , all the pyramids, of number, energy and biomass are upright.
Reason: In a food chain producers are more in number and biomass than the herbivores, and herbivores are more in number and biomass and carnivores.

A

If both assertion and reason are true and the reason is a correct explanation of the assertion.

B

If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not a correct explanation of the assertion.

C

If assertion is true but reason is false.

D

If both assertion and reason are false.

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In most ecosystems, all the pyramids , of number, energy and biomass are upright , because in a food chain producers are more in number and biomass than the herbivores, and herbivores are more in number and biomass than carnivores.
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