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Human Health and Disease — BIOLOGY STD 12 Science — Question

Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 ScienceBIOLOGYHuman Health and Disease1 Mark
Question
For question, two statements are given-one labelled Assertion and the other labelled Reason. Select the correct answer to these questions from the codes (a), (b), (c) and (d) as given below.
  1. Both assertion and reason are true, and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.
  2. Both assertion and reason are true, but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
  3. Assertion is true, but reason is false.
  4. Both assertion and reason are false.
Assertion : Smack is a by-product of heroin synthesis.
Reason: Heroin is an opium alkaloid.
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Answer

  1. Assertion is true, but reason is false.

Explanation:

Heroin is diamorphine or diacetylmorphine -C17 H17 (OC2 H3 O3)2NH, which is also called smack. Opium is semisynthetic opiate (opium-derivative) which is most dangerous of all the opiates. Heroin is formed from acetylation of morphine.

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