Given below are assertion and reason.
Assertion: Neurospora is commonly called water mould .
Reason : It belongs to basidiomycetes

Options

A. If both assertion and reason are true 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.

Answer

D

Explanation

Both assertion and reason are false.
Neurospora is commonly called pink /red bread mould or pink mould. It belongs to class ascomycetes fungi or sac fungi. It is used in experimental genetics as it can be grown easily in a definite medium in laboratory. it is a haploid fungus. It is a heterothalic fungus having + ve and -ve mycelia and somatic fusion of two halpoid nuclei produce a diploid zygote . The zygote by one meiotic and another mitotic divisions forms 8-nuclei and hence ascospores, a characteristic structure of ascomycetes are produced.