NEET Biology Principle Of Inheritance And Variation Question Bank Assertion and Reason

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    Assertion : The bacterial chromosome is called nucleoid. Reason : Nucleus is absent, but chromosomes are similar to eukaryotes.

    A) If both the assertion and the reason are true and the reason is a correct explanation of the assertion

    B) If both the assertion and reason are true but the reason is not a correct explanation of the assertion 

    C) If the assertion is true but the reason is false

    D) If both the assertion and reason are false

    E) If the assertion is false but reason is true

    Correct Answer: C

    Solution :

    The bacterial hereditary material is mainly made of spherical to cylindrical structure called nuclear body or nucleoid (genophore). It is without a limiting membrane and equivalent to a single chromosome of eukaryotes. It consists of a naked double strand of DNA, that is the DNA is not associated with histone proteins.


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