Gause's principle of competitive exclusion states that:

Gause's principle of competitive exclusion states that:
  1. More abundant species will exclude the less abundant species through competition
  2. Competition for the same resources excludes species having different food preferences
  3. No two species can occupy the same niche indefinitely for the same limiting resources
  4. Larger organisms exclude smaller ones through competition

Solution

It is a proposition named after Georgy Gause. Gause's principle of competitive exclusion states that two closely related species competing for the same resources cannot c0-exist indefinitely and the competitively inferior one will be eliminated eventually. This may be true if limited resources are present.

Asked in: NEET 2016 (Phase 1)

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