NEET Biology question

Statement 1: Plant-animal interactions do not generally involve co-evolution of the mutualist organisms. Statement 2: Evolution of plants and animals can never go side by side.

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

Answer: (D)

Solution

Statement 1 is false — plant-animal mutualistic interactions (such as pollination and seed dispersal) very commonly do involve long-term co-evolution of the interacting partners (as seen in the fig-fig wasp and yucca-yucca moth examples); statement 2 is true in the specific sense that the evolutionary

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