NEET Biology question

**Assertion:** Duck-billed platypus is a false mammal because it lays eggs. **Reason:** True mammals are all viviparous; hence duck-billed platypus is a false mammal.

(A)Both Assertion and Reason are True and Reason is the 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 Reason is False
(D)Both Assertion and Reason are FalseCorrect

Answer: (D)

Solution

The duck-billed platypus (*Ornithorhynchus*) is a true mammal (subclass Prototheria) because it possesses the defining mammalian characters of milk-producing mammary glands,

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