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Q. Assertion : NAND is a universal gate.
Reason$\quad$: It can be used to describe all other logic gates.

AIIMSAIIMS 2007Semiconductor Electronics: Materials Devices and Simple Circuits

Solution:

NAND and NOR gates are treated as universal gates because all other basic gates AND gate OR gate and NOT gate can be constructed using only NAND gate (or NOR gate).