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Assertion: Arachidic acid is an unsaturated fatty acid.
Reason: There are one or more double bonds between carbon atoms in unsaturated fatty acids.

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Both assertion and reason are true and the reason is the correct explanation for assertion.
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Both assertion and reason are true but the reason is not the correct explanation for the assertion.
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Assertion is true but the reason is false.
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Both Assertion and reason are false.
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Solution

The correct option is D. Both Assertion and Reason are false.
Unsaturated fatty acids: The fatty acids which contain double or triple bonds between carbon atoms.

Example palmitoleic acid, oleic acid, linolenic acid, arachidonic acid, etc.

Arachidic acid is also known as icosanoic acid. It is a saturated fatty acid(contains only a single bond) found in peanut oil.


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