NEETBotanyAnatomy of Flowering Plants
Read the following Assertion and Reason and choose the correct option. Assertion: The vascular bundles in leaves are surrounded by bundle sheath cells. Reason: Bundle sheath cells in the leaves have thin walls for easy exchange of gases.
Options
- ABoth Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is correct explanation of Assertion
- BBoth Assertion and Reason are true but Reason is not the correct explanation of Assertion
- CAssertion is true but the Reason is false
- DBoth Assertion are Reason are false
Correct answer
C. Assertion is true but the Reason is false
Step-by-step solution
The vascular bundles are surrounded by a layer of thick-walled bundle sheath cells, not thin-walled ones.