Assertion: Red colour of Rhodophyta is due to abundant formation of r-phycoerythrin. Reason: r-Phycoerythrin is able to absorb blue green wavelength of light and reflect red colour.

Question

Assertion: Red colour of Rhodophyta is due to abundant formation of r-phycoerythrin. Reason: r-Phycoerythrin is able to absorb blue green wavelength of light and reflect red colour. (A) If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion (B) If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion (C) If assertion is true but reason is false (D) If both assertion and reason are false

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The red colour of red algae (Rhodophyta) is due to abundant formation of r-phycoerythrin. Phycoerythrin absorb blue green wavelengths of light and reflect red light and thus imparts red colour to algae.

Q. Assertion : Red colour of Rhodophyta is due to abundant formation of $r$ -phycoerythrin.
Reason : $r$ -Phycoerythrin is able to absorb blue green wavelength of light and reflect red colour.

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

The red colour of red algae (Rhodophyta) is due to abundant formation of $r$ -phycoerythrin. Phycoerythrin absorb blue green wavelengths of light and reflect red light and thus imparts red colour to algae.

Q. Assertion : Red colour of Rhodophyta is due to abundant formation of r-phycoerythrin. Reason : r-Phycoerythrin is able to absorb blue green wavelength of light and reflect red colour.