Trees often produce secondary chemicals to deter herbivores from feeding on thei

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Trees often produce secondary chemicals to deter herbivores from feeding on their leaves; in turn, many herbivores have produced ways of avoiding or detoxifying these chemicals. This is an example of competitive exclusion predatory avoidance coevolution parasitic evolution parasite predation The species redundancy hypothesis suggests: all species are important for the proper functioning of a community species are not important that loss of some species does not affect the function of a community disturbances produce the largest number of species o 5) time is an important factor influencing species number

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Ans 33. 3) coevolution

Here the two species , plants and herbivores are reciprocally co affecting each others evolution. This relationship exerts selective pressure on the other species which drives the evolutionary process.

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