Gause's principle of competitive exclusion states that:

Options

A. No two species can occupy the same niche indefinitely for the same limiting resources.
B. Larger organisms exclude smaller ones through competition
C. More abundant species will exclude the less abundant species through competition
D. Competition for the same resources excludes species having different food preferences.

Answer

A

Explanation

Gause's competitive exclusion principle states that 2 closely related species completing for the same resources can not coexist indefinitely and the competitively inferior species will be eliminated eventually.