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The Competitive Exclusion Principle is credited to:

APearl
BAllen
CDarwin
DGause
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Gause
1. Two species competing for the same resources cannot coexist indefinitely. 2. This is Gause's principle. 3. Resource partitioning can allow coexistence. _Source: syllabus Biology, Chapter 13, Organisms and Populations._
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