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Assertion : Chemical messengers are chemicals that enable communication of message between two neurons or between neurons and muscles.
Reason : Chemicals enter the cell through receptor.

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Both Assertion and Reason are incorrect.
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Both Assertion and Reason are correct.
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Both Assertion and Reason are correct and Reason is the incorrect explanation for Assertion.
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Assertion is correct but Reason is incorrect.
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non of these
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A and B
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The correct option is D Assertion is correct but Reason is incorrect.
Option (D) is correct. Assertion is correct but Reason is incorrect.
Chemical messengers are chemicals that enable communication of message between two neurons or between neurons and muscles.Chemical messages are transmitted to specific receptors through the extracellular fluids or across the synaptic gap.
These chemical messengers interact with receptors without entering the cell and change the shape of receptor and deliver the message.

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