Assertion : Phenylketonuria is a recessive hereditary disease caused by the body’s failure to oxidize an amino acid phenylalanine to tyrosine, because of a defective enzyme.
Reason : It results in the presence of phenylalanine acid in the urine.
Assertion : In honey bee, life history shows natural and complete parthenogenesis.
Reason : In honey bee, both drones and workers are parthenogenetically developed.
Assertion: Dominance is not always an autonomous feature of gene or its product.
Reason: Occasionally a single gene product may produce more than one effects.
Assertion (A): | Organisms lacking one complete chromosome are called monosomics. |
Reason (R): | Down’s syndrome is an example of monosomy. |
1. | Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A). |
2. | Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A). |
3. | (A) is true but (R) is false. |
4. | Both (A) and (R) are false. |