A. Assertion: One of the defining properties of living organisms is consciousness.
Reason: Human being is the only organism that has self-consciousness.
OR
B. Assertion: The scientific terms or ranks for the categories like dogs, cats, mammals, plants, animals
etc. is taxa.
Reason: The taxa can indicate categories at very different level.
a. Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of
Assertion.
b. Both Assertion and Reason are true but Reason is not the correct explanation
of Assertion.
c. Assertion is true but Reason is false.
d. Both Assertion and Reason are false.