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Assertion : Asexual reproduction is more important with regard to biotehnology.
Reason : Asexual reproduction preserves the genetic information while sexual reporduction permits variations.

A

a) Both assertion and reason are true and reason is correct explanation for assertion.

B

b) Both assertion and reason are true but reason is not correct explanation for assertion.

C

c) Assertion is true but reason is false.

D

d) Assertion is false but reason is true.

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A
Biotechnology studies need a quick growing population of genetically unfiorm individuals so that similar changes may be produced in all the genetically engineered organism. Hence, asexual reporudction, which is a quicker and faster method of reproduction and preserves the genetic information of individuals, is better suited for biotechnological experiments. For example, if an organism that has been incorporated with a gene for diease resistance reproduces sexually, then recombination adn segregation of genes will occur during gamete formation. Hence, some of the progeny may lose the gene of diease resistance incorporated into the parent. On the other hand, if the genetically engineered organism reproduces asexually, then all its progeny will invariably contain the gene for diease resistance.
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