{"id":818,"date":"2023-06-15T12:44:17","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T07:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=818"},"modified":"2024-04-03T07:21:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:51:58","slug":"q-consider-the-following-statements-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-consider-the-following-statements-19","title":{"rendered":"Q. Consider the following statements :"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Statement-I<\/strong>&nbsp;: Marsupials are not naturally found in India.<br><strong>Statement-II<\/strong>&nbsp;: Marsupials can thrive&nbsp;<strong>only in montane grasslands with no predators<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"mcq wp-block-list\">\n<li>Both Statement-I and Statement-II are correct and Statement-II is the correct explanation for Statement-I<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Both Statement-I and Statement-II are correct and Statement-II is not the correct explanation for Statement-I<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Statement-I is correct but Statement-II is incorrect<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Statement-I is incorrect but Statement-II is correct<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer: (c) Statement-I is correct but Statement-II is incorrect<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Marsupials<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Marsupials are any members of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia.&nbsp;<strong>All extant marsupials are endemic to Australasia, Wallacea and the Americas<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A distinctive characteristic common to most of these species is that the&nbsp;<strong>young are carried in a pouch.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Living marsupials include&nbsp;<strong>opossums, Tasmanian devils, kangaroos, koalas, wombats, wallabies, and bandicoots<\/strong>&nbsp;among others, while many extinct species, such as the&nbsp;<strong>thylacine<\/strong>, are also known.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They&nbsp;<strong>give birth to relatively undeveloped young&nbsp;<\/strong>that often reside in a pouch located on their mothers\u2019 abdomen for a certain amount of time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Close to&nbsp;<strong>70% of the 334 extant species occur on the Australian continent<\/strong>&nbsp;(the mainland, Tasmania, New Guinea and nearby islands). The&nbsp;<strong>remaining 30% are found in the Americas<\/strong>\u2014primarily in South America, thirteen in Central America, and one species, the Virginia opossum, in North America, north of Mexico.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Marsupials.jpeg\" alt=\"Marsupials\" class=\"wp-image-40154\" width=\"619\" height=\"619\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Marsupials-Animal.jpg\" alt=\"Marsupials Animal\" class=\"wp-image-40155\" width=\"629\" height=\"330\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_7ba97e-8c .kt-block-spacer{height:40px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_7ba97e-8c .kt-divider{border-top-width:2px;border-top-color:#eee;width:100%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-_7ba97e-8c\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statement-I&nbsp;: Marsupials are not naturally found in India.Statement-II&nbsp;: Marsupials can thrive&nbsp;only in montane grasslands with no predators. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements? Answer: (c) Statement-I is correct but Statement-II is incorrect Marsupials<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[36],"years":[50],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-environment","years-50"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":36,"label":"Environment"}],"years":[{"value":50,"label":"2023"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":36,"name":"Environment","slug":"environment","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":36,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":193,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":835,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions\/835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}