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Assertion: During gamete transport through water (in algae, bryophytes and pteridophytes), a large number of male gametes, fail to reach the female gametes.
Reason: To compensate this loss of male gametes during transport, the number of female gametes produced is several thousand times the number of male gametes produed.

A

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

B

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.

D

If both assertion and reason are false.

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C
• During gamete transport through water in algae, bry-ophytes and pteridophytes) a large number of male gametes, fail to reach the female gametes.
• To compensate this loss of male gametes during transport, the number of male gametes produced is several thousand times the number of female gametes produced.
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