Assertion: In a food chain, members of successively higher levels are fewer in number.
Reason: Number of organisms at any trophic level depends upon the availability of organisms which serve as food at the lower level.
(a) If both Assertion and Reason are correct and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion.
(b) If both Assertion and Reason are correct, but Reason is not the correct explanation of Assertion.
(c) If Assertion is correct but Reason is incorrect.
(d) If both the Assertion and Reason are incorrect.
(d) If both the Assertion and Reason are incorrect.
Explanation:
When food is made available, automatically the next higher level of organism in the hierarchy should increase. This is because when the forest cover got depleted it led to the increase in the number of endangered species. If the deer population is more, it automatically leads to an increase in the tiger population.