Maharashtra BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 ScienceBIOLOGYEcosystems1 Mark
MCQ
Who coined the term ecosystem ?
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Tansley
B
Odum
C
Warming
D
Darwin
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Answer
Correct option: A.
Tansley
$A$. Arthur George Tansley coined the term ecosystem' in $1935$ to describe the interactions between organisms and with their environment.
$B$. Odum was an American biologist who worked on ecosystem ecology and wrote the book 'Fundamentals of ecology'.
$C$. Eugenius warming was the first to write a textbook on plant ecology.
He gave the concept and content on ecology.
$D$. Darwin gave a theory of natural selection which states that only fittest individuals are selected by nature and unfit ones are eliminated.
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