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Gause's principle of competitive exclusion states that:

A

Competition for the same resources excludes species having different food preferences.

B

No two species can occupy the same niche indefinitely for the same limiting resources.

C

Larger organisms exclde smaller ones through competition

D

More abundant species will exclude the less abundant species through competition.

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