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Select the correct sequence of succession in a pond.
1) Submerged plants `rarr` Floating plants `rarr` Reed swamp stage `rarr` Sedges
2) Floating plants `rarr` Submerged plants `rarr` redd swamp stage `rarr` Sedges
3) Reed swamp stage `rarr` Sedges `rarr` Floating plants `rarr` Submerged plants
4) Sedges `rarr` Reed swamp stage `rarr` Floating plants `rarr` Submerged plants

A

Submerged plants `rarr` Floating plants `rarr` Reed swamp stage `rarr` Sedges

B

Floating plants `rarr` Submerged plants `rarr` redd swamp stage `rarr` Sedges

C

Reed swamp stage `rarr` Sedges `rarr` Floating plants `rarr` Submerged plants

D

Sedges `rarr` Reed swamp stage `rarr` Floating plants `rarr` Submerged plants

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The correct Answer is:
A
Series of biotic communities that develop in a newly formed pond or lake is called hydrosere. Various seral stages of hydrosere are :
Planktons (phytoplanktons and zooplanktons) `to` rooted submerged hydrophytes `to` reedswamps `to ` sedges or marsh-meadow stage `to` woodland or scrub stage `to` climax forest.
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