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Use the below pair of names to fill the gaps in the given statement.

"Connell's elegant field experiments showed that on rocky sea coasts of Scotland, the larger and competitively superior barnacle _______ dominates the intertidal area, and exclude smaller barnacle _______ from that zone"
BiologyOrganisms and PopulationsNEET
Options:
  • A Chathamalus, Balanus
  • B Balanus, Balanus
  • C Chathamalus, chhathamalus
  • D Balanus, Chathamalus
Solution:
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The correct answer is: Balanus, Chathamalus
The distribution of a species is restricted to asmall geographical area due to the activity of competitively superior species, it was found to expand its distributional rangedramatically when the competing species was experimentally removed. Connell performed an elegant field experiment to show that studying Balanus and Chathamalus.

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