NEET Biology question

Disappearance of dinosaurs and a number of other organisms is called

(A)Natural extinction
(B)Anthropogenic extinction
(C)K-T boundaryCorrect
(D)Extinction vertex

Answer: (C)

Solution

The mass extinction of dinosaurs and many other organisms occurred at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary (over 60 million years ago), referred to as the K-T boundary event. It is not called "anthropogenic extinction" (since no humans existed then

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