NTA Abhyas NEET2020BotanyEcosystemPractice
Select the CORRECT statement.
Options
- ACarbon cycle is imperfect cycle while phosphorus cycle is perfect cycle.
- BTen percent law was proposed by Odum in 1942.
- CGrazing food chain helps in releasing inorganic nutrients to the cycling pool.
- DSeral community is a transitional community which develops in an area during succession.
Correct answer
D. Seral community is a transitional community which develops in an area during succession.
Step-by-step solution
The process of the changes occurring in the structure of various organisms in an ecosystem over a period of time is referred to as ecological succession. During ecological succession, one of the intermediate stages that develops is called the seral community. It gets replaced by a successive community during the succession process. The phosphorus cycle is considered as an imperfect cycle as the phosphorus that originates from a source does not go back to it. Lindemann proposed the Ten Percent Law for energy transfe