Assertion :Western blotting and ELISA tests are used to detect HIV infection in human. Reason: These two techniques use same genomic probes (RNA), which are found in HIV.

Both Assertion and Reason are correct and Reason is the correct explanation for Assertion

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Both Assertion and Reason are correct but Reason is not the correct explanation for Assertion

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Assertion is correct but Reason is incorrect

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Both Assertion and Reason are incorrect

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Solution

The correct option is C Assertion is correct but Reason is incorrect
Western blotting and ELISA both tests are done to detect HIV infection in human. In the western blot technique, radioactive labelled DNA is used as probe while in the ELISA enzyme probes are used. So, the correct option is C.

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