NEET Biology question

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**Assertion:** The process of nitrification involves the decomposition of proteins of dead plants and animals, and nitrogenous wastes like urea and uric acid of animals, to ammonia. **Reason:** Nitrogen cycle is a sedimentary cycle.

(A)Assertion is True, Reason is True; Reason is correct explanation for Assertion
(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 FalseCorrect

Answer: (D)

Solution

The assertion is false because the breakdown of proteins and nitrogenous wastes into ammonia is called ammonification, not nitrification (nitrification is the subsequent oxidation of ammonia to nitrite and then nitrate by nitrifying

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