Assertion: Sclereids are found in fruit walls of nuts, pulp of fruits like guava, pear and sapota and seed coats of legumes. Reason: Sclereids are spherical, oval or cylindrical, highly thickened dead cells with narrow lumen.

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Assertion: Sclereids are found in fruit walls of nuts, pulp of fruits like guava, pear and sapota and seed coats of legumes. Reason: Sclereids are spherical, oval or cylindrical, highly thickened dead cells with narrow lumen. (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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Correct answer is (b) If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion

Q. Assertion : Sclereids are found in fruit walls of nuts, pulp of fruits like guava, pear and sapota and seed coats of legumes. Reason : Sclereids are spherical, oval or cylindrical, highly thickened dead cells with narrow lumen.

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

Correct answer is (b) If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion

Q. Assertion : Sclereids are found in fruit walls of nuts, pulp of fruits like guava, pear and sapota and seed coats of legumes.
Reason : Sclereids are spherical, oval or cylindrical, highly thickened dead cells with narrow lumen.