Question

Assertion: Children with light colored eyes are likely to have parents with light colored eyes. 

Reason: The light eye- color trait is dominant

a) Both A and R are true, and R is correct explanation of the assertion. 

b) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of the assertion. 

c) A is true, but R is false. 

d) A is false, but R is true.

Answer 1

(c) Assertion may be true, but reason is false as we cannot say which trait is dominant or recessive unless we know the genotype of these variants of the trait.