| Assertion: | Growth cannot be taken as a defining property of living organisms. |
| Reason: | A multicellular organism grows by cell division. |
| 1. | Both assertion and reason are true and the reason is the correct explanation of the assertion |
| 2. | Both assertion and reason are true but the reason is not the correct explanation of the assertion |
| 3. | Assertion is true but reason is false |
| 4. | Both assertion and reason are false |