Microbial Role in Sustainable Agriculture — NEET Biology
📚 Practice ConceptMicrobes can be used to decrease the use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides. Explain how this can be accomplished.
Assertion (A): Antibiotics can kill or retard the growth of disease-causing microbes. Reason (R): Antibiotics are chemical substances produced by some microbes.
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Correct answer: A — If both assertion and reason are true and the reason is the correct explanation of the assertion.
Both statements are exact NCERT quotes. NCERT defines antibiotics as “chemical substances, which are produced by some microbes” and states they “can kill or retard the growth of other (disease-causing) microbes.” The Reason explains WHAT antibiotics are (their origin) that enables the antimicrobial function described in the Assertion.
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