CBSE 2023 · Region 1 · Set 2 · Q16 · 1 mark
Assertion (A) : Cattle and goats are never seen browsing on Calotropis growing in abandoned fields.
Reason (R) : Cattle and goats avoid grazing on Calotropis because of the offensive smell of its flowers.
Official answer
From CBSE’s own marking scheme for this paper.
(C)
Assertion (A) is true, but Reason (R) is false.
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