Assertion: Biodiversity encompasses variety and variability of all forms of life on earth that play a great role in human existence.
Reason: Its conservation embraces maintenance, sustainable utilization, and restoration, of the lost and degraded biodiversity through two basic and complementary strategies called in situ and ex situ.
Both Assertion & Reason are true and the reason is the correct explanation of the assertion.
Both Assertion & Reason are true but the reason is not the correct explanation of the assertion
Assertion is true statement but Reason is false.
Both Assertion and Reason are false.
Biodiversity encompasses the variety and variability of all forms of life on earth that play a great role in human existence. Its conservation embraces maintenance, sustainable utilization, and restoration, of the lost and degraded biodiversity through two basic and complementary strategies called in situ and ex situ. Ex-situ conservation is the technique of conservation of all levels of biological diversity outside their natural habitats through different techniques like zoos, captive breeding, aquarium, botanical garden, and gene bank. Therefore, Both Assertion & Reason are true and the reason is the correct explanation of the assertion making option 1 as the correct answer.