NEET
- Exam
- NEET
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- Botany
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- Biodiversity and its Conservation
NEET · Botany · Biodiversity and its Conservation
Read the following Assertion and Reason and choose the correct...
Read the following Assertion and Reason and choose the correct option.
Assertion: Plants comprise more than 25% of total population.
Reason: The number of fungi species in the world is more than the combined total of the species of fishes, amphibians, reptiles and non-chordates.
Assertion: Plants comprise more than 25% of total population.
Reason: The number of fungi species in the world is more than the combined total of the species of fishes, amphibians, reptiles and non-chordates.
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 and Reason are false
Correct answer
D. Both Assertion and Reason are false
Step-by-step solution
The number of fungi species in the world is more than the combined total of the species of fishes, amphibians, reptiles and mammals. More than 70 per cent of all the species recorded are animals, while plants (including algae, fungi, bryophytes, gymnosperms and angiosperms) comprise no more than 22 per cent of the total.