CBSE 2024 · Region 5 · Set 3 · Q14 · 1 mark
Assertion (A): "Biodiversity hotspots" are the regions which possess high levels of species richness, high degree of endemism.
Reason (R) : Total number of biodiversity hotspots in the world is $\displaystyle 22$ with two of these hotspots found in India.
Official answer
From CBSE’s own marking scheme for this paper.
(C)
(A) is true, but (R) is false.
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