Assertion: Muscle fibre is a syncitium.
Reason: Muscle fibre has a large number of parallelly arraaged myofilaments in the sarcoplasm.

Options

A. If both assertion and reason are ture and reason is the corect explanation of assertion
B. If both assertion and reason are ture but reson is not the correct explanation of assertion
C. If assertion is true reason is false
D. If both assertion and reason are false

Answer

b

Explanation

Muscle fibre is a syncitium as the sacroplasm contains many nuclei
A characterstic feature of the muscle fibre is the presence of a large number of paralley arranged filaments in the sacroplasm called myofilaments or myofibrils. Each myofibril has alternate dark and light bands on it.