Question

Read the assertion and reason statements carefully and mark/write the correct option out of the
following options:
(a) If both assertion and reason are true and the reason is the correct explanation of the assertion.
(b) If both the assertion and reason are true but the reason is the correct explanation of the assertion.
(c) If assertion is true but reason is false.
(d) If both assertion and reason are false.
(i) Assertion: Majority of children in many parts of India are already immune to hepatitis A by the
time they are five years old.
Reason : Children are exposed to the virus through water.
(ii) Assertion: Vascular or conductive tissue is a distinctive feature of complex plants.
Reason: Vascular tissue has made survival of complex plants possible in terrestrial environment.
(iii) Assertion: Lateral meristems add thickness of plants.
Reason: Lateral meristems divide only in one plane.

Answer 1

The correct option (D) If the assertion and reason both the false.

Explanation:

Magnetic poles always exist in pairs when north poles of two magnets or south poles of two magnets are glued together they provide three pole configurations. Here assertion is false. Also a bar magnet does not exert a torque on itself due to its own field. Hence reason is also false.