Question

Discuss one example, based on your day-to-day observations, showing
how loss of one species may lead to the extinction of another.


NCERT Class XII
Biology - Main Course Book

Chapter 15. Biodiversity and Conservation

Answer 1

If dogs are removed, cats would increase,then rats would decrease.
Removal of one species affects the whole food chain

Answer 2

Answer:

Co-extinction is the extinction of two mutually related or interelated species, for instance a host fish extinction leads to the extinction of all those parasites exclusively found on it. Another example is plant pollinator mutualism, where extinction of one leads to the extinction of other.