NEET Biology question

Assertion: The embryos of fish, salamander, tortoise, chick and man, at the same stage, resemble one another closely. Reason: Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.

(A)Assertion is True, Reason is True; Reason is correct explanation for AssertionCorrect
(B)Assertion is True, Reason is True; Reason is not correct explanation for Assertion
(C)Assertion is True, Reason is False
(D)Assertion is False, Reason is True

Answer: (A)

Solution

Early vertebrate embryos are indeed strikingly similar in appearance, making the Assertion true, and Haeckel's biogenetic law, that the development of an

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