Judge the following sentence according to the criteria given below: The concentration of marine life increases as the distance from the continental margins into the open sea increases BECAUSE the continents are the major sources of the nutrients

phytoplankton needed for the process of photosynthesis. 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.


D

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