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Assertion: Mass selection is useful in self-pollinated plants.
Reason: Self-pollinated plants are homozygous which retain the selected traits in the progeny.

A

Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is correct explanation of Assertion.

B

Both Assertion and Reason are true, but reason is not the correct explanation of Assertion

C

Assertion is true, but the Reason is false

D

Assertion is false, but the Reason is true

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A
Mass selection is the most ancient method of selection which involves the selection of seeds of a number of plants on the basis of phenotypic characters like and size, fruit size, quality of fruit pollinated plants because they are usually homozygous and retain the selected traits in the progeny.
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