Morphology Of Flowering Plants Root Stem And Leaf Question 474

Question: Read the assertion and reason carefully:

Assertion : All tissues lying inside vascular cambium are called as bark. Reason : Bark is made up of phellogen, phellem and phelloderm lying inside secondary phloem. [AIIMS 1994]

Options:

A) If both the assertion and the reason are true and the reason is a correct explanation of the assertion

B) If both the assertion and reason are true but the reason is not a correct explanation of the assertion

C) If the assertion is true but the reason is false

D) If both the assertion and reason are false

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Answer:

Correct Answer: D

Solution:

Bark consists of all tissues out side the vascular cambium.

Phellem, phellogen and phelloderm constitute periderm.