Biology : XI-CH10 – Cell Cycle and Cell Division – Assertion and Reason

Read the assertion and reason carefully to mark the correct option.

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Read the assertion and reason carefully to mark the correct option out of the options given below:

Assertion: Colchicine is a mitotic poison.

Reason: Colchicine interferes in the arrangement of spindle fibres.

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Assertion: Meiotic division help in evolution process.

Reason: Meiosis increases genetic variability in the population.

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Assertion: During zygotene, chromosomes show bivalent stage.

Reason: Bivalent is half the number of chromosomes.

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Assertion: Stage between two meiotic divisions (I & II) is referred as interkinesis.

Reason: Interkinesis is short lived phase.

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Assertion: Chiasmata is formed during diplotene.

Reason: Chiasmata are formed due to the deposition of nucleoproteins.

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Assertion: The interphase is considered as the most active stage of cell cycle.

Reason: This phase is a period of intense synthesis and growth

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Assertion: Mitosis is called equational division.

Reason: Mitosis is the division of parent cell into two identical daughter cells having the same amount of DNA as in parent cell.

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Assertion: Liquid endosperm in coconut is multinucleated.

Reason: Karyokinesis is not followed by cytokinesis.

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Assertion: In oocytes, diplotene can last for months or years

Reason: It is at this stage that chromosome decondense and engage in RNA synthesis

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Read the assertion and reason carefully to mark the correct option out of the options given below:

Assertion: Prophase is characterised by formation of mitotic chromosome.

Reason: Chromosomal material condenses in prophase stage.

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is correct explanation of the assertion

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not correct explanation of the assertion

(A) is true but (R) is false

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