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Q.Ecology is the study of an individual species is called

i) Community ecology
ii) Autecology
iii) Species ecology
iv) Synecology
a) i only
b) ii only
c) i and iv only
d) ii and iii only
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Step 1. Recall the definition: 'Autecology is the ecology of an individual species and is also called species ecology.'

Step 2. This tells us two labels point to the same branch: (ii) Autecology and (iii) Species ecology.

Step 3. (i) Community ecology and (iv) Synecology are, by contrast, defined as the ecology of a population/community, not a single species — so they do not belong in the answer.

Step 4. The combination naming exactly the two correct labels is (ii) and (iii).

✓Final answer

Option (d) — ii and iii only, since Autecology and Species ecology are two names for the same single-species branch of ecology.

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