Judge the following sentence according to the criteria given below: It is advantageous for fishers to choose a population that feeds as close to the primary producing population as possible BECAUSE energy transfer between trophic levels is

inefficient. A) The assertion and the reason are both correct, and the reason is valid.
B) The assertion and the reason are both correct, but the reason is invalid.
C) The assertion is correct, but the reason is incorrect.
D) The assertion is incorrect, but the reason is correct.
E) Both the assertion and the reason are incorrect.


A

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