Assertion: For long DNA molecules, the replication occurs within a small opening of the DNA helix, referred to as replication fork.
Reason: The separation of two strands in their entire length will be not feasible energetically.
1. Both assertion and reason are true and the reason is the correct explanation of the assertion.
2. Both assertion and reason are true but the reason is not the correct explanation of the assertion.
3. Assertion is true but reason is false.
4. Both assertion and reason are false.