Assertion: Flavr-Savr tomato was the first transgenic commercial crop that entered the market.

Reason: Roundup variety of soybean was prepared through breeding.

• If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.

• If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.

• If assertion is true but reason is false.

• If both assertion and reason are false.

Assertion: XX-XY type of sex determination mechanism is an example of female heterogamety and is found in Drosophila.

Reason: Male heterogamety is seen in moths where males produce two different types of gamete.

• If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.

• If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.

• If assertion is true but reason is false.

• If both assertion and reason are false.

Assertion: Restriction enzymes cut the strand of DNA to produce sticky ends.

Reason: Stickiness of the ends facilitates the action of the enzyme DNA polymerase.

• If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.

• If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.

• If assertion is true but reason is false.

• If both assertion and reason are false.

Assertion: Chimpanzee is the closest relative of the present day humans.

Reason: The banding pattern in some autosomes of man and chimpanzee is remarkably similar.

• If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.

• If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.

• If assertion is true but reason is false.

• If both assertion and reason are false.

Assertion: Analogous organs are a result of divergent evolution.

Reason: Eye of octopus and of mammals depict divergent evolution.

• If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.

• If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.

• If assertion is true but reason is false.

• If both assertion and reason are false.

Refer to the given figure and choose the organism not related to the condition shown here.

• Microsporum

• Trichophyton

• W. malayi

• Epidermophyton

Assertion: Neurospora is commonly called water mould.

Reason: It belongs to basidiomycetes fungi.

• If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.

• If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.

• If assertion is true but reason is false.

• If both assertion and reason are false.

Assertion: Somatic hybridisation is a process where protoplasts of two desired plants can be fused to develop improved plants.

Reason: Cross breeding can also induce variability

• If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.

• If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.

• If assertion is true but reason is false.

• If both assertion and reason are false.

Assertion: The honeybee queen copulates only once in her life time.

Reason: The honeybee queen can lay fertilised as well as unfertilised eggs.

• If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.

• If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.

• If assertion is true but reason is false.

• If both assertion and reason are false.

Which of the following conditions represents a case of codominant genes

• A gene expresses itself, suppressing the phenotypic effect of its alleles.

• Genes that are similar in phenotypic effect when present separately, but when together interact to produce a different trait.

• Alleles, both of which interact to produce a trait, which may or may not resemble either of the parental types.

• Alleles, each of which produces an independent effect in a heterozygous condition.