NEET Biology Morphology of Flowering Plants (Root, Stem And Leaf) Question Bank Assertion Reason

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    Read the assertion and reason carefully:
    Assertion            :     Adventitious roots are formed from any part of plant other than the radicle. 
    Reason              :     Adventitious roots are mostly initiated by differentiating vascular tissues of the organ.

    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 :

    Adventitious roots may occur on the hypocotyl of a seedling at nodes and internodes of stems and in roots. The principal histologic aspects of the origin of adventitious roots may be summed up in a statement that such roots usually are initiated in the vicinity of differentiating vascular tissues of the organ which give rise to them.


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