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Assertion : Pollution is always caused by human activities.
Reason : Pollution is not different from contamination.
BiologyEnvironmental IssuesAIIMSAIIMS 2007
Options:
  • A If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion
  • B If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion
  • C If assertion is true but reason is false
  • D If both assertion and reason are false.
Solution:
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The correct answer is: If both assertion and reason are false.
Pollution may be defined as an undesirable change in the physical, chemical or biological characteristics of air, water and land that may or will harmfully affect human lives or other organism. Pollution can be natural or man made. Natural pollution comes from volcanic eruptions, emission of natural gas, soil erosion, ultraviolet rays, etc. Most of the pollution is man-made. Contamination occurs due to the presence of harmful organisms or their products or undersirable products in a desirable product causing disease or discomfort, for the organism who consume it. Therefore pollution and contamination are two different things.

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