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Assertion : More than 25 per cent of human population is suffering from hunger and malnutrition.
Reason : It was learnt by scientists, during 1960 , that whole plants could be regenerated form explants.

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

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

C

If assertion is true but reason is false

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If both assertion and reason are false

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More than 25 per cent of human population is suffering from hunger and malnutrition.
It was learnt by scientists, during 1950s, that whole plants could be regenerated from explants.
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