Question

Assertion: The allele that masks the other is completely dominant, and the masked allele is the

recessive one.


Reason: When Mendel crossed a true breeding tall plant to a short plant, the tallness allele was

completely dominant over the dwarfness allele.

Please answer in terms of-

(A) Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion.

(B) Both Assertion and Reason are true but Assertion is not the correct explanation of Assertion.

(C) Assertion is true but Reason is false.

(D) Reason is true but Assertion is false.

Please help :)​

Answer 1

Answer:

Both Assertion and Reason are true But reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.

Answer 2

When one of the alleles of a heterozygous pair masks the presence of another, recessive allele, it is known as a dominant allele.

so, option isC