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

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    Assertion : If pollen mother cells has 42 chromosomes. The pollen has only 21 chromosomes. Reason : Pollens are formed after meiosis in pollen mother cell. [AIIMS 1997]

    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: A

    Solution :

    Pollen are formed by meiosis in pollen mother cells. Hence, chromosome number will be reduced to half in pollens.


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