Biodiversity And Its Conservation Ques 61

61. Reason for diversity in living beings is due to

(a) mutation

(b) long term evolutionary change

(c) gradual change

(d) short term evolutionary change

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Answer : b

Hints & Solutions

(b) Diversity arises from long-term evolutionary changes. Adaptability to continuous environmental changes is crucial for natural selection, leading to the generation of variants over generations and the emergence of diverse descendants.