Question

Assertion (A): Plasmodium vivax is responsible for malaria.

Reason (R): Malaria spreads by polluted water.

Options

• Both assertion (A) and reason (R) are true, and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.

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

• Assertion (A) is true but reason (R) is false.

• Both assertion (A) and reason (R) are false.

Answer 1

Assertion (A) is true but reason (R) is false.

Explanation:

Plasmodium vivax causes one form of malaria. Malaria spreads through the bite of an infected female Anopheles mosquito, not through polluted water.