Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and other one labelled as Reason (R).
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.
- Assertion (A) is True: Hatchability of eggs laid during long laying sequences (clutches of $\gt 4\text{--}6\text{ eggs}$) is significantly higher than that of eggs from short 1- to 2-egg sequences.
- Reason (R) is True: The first egg of a sequence experiences prolonged oviduct holding time, delayed pre-ovulatory aging, and increased pre-incubation embryonic development, which depresses hatchability. In long sequences, a far smaller proportion of eggs suffer from this pre-incubation delay.
- Relationship: (R) correctly explains the physiological basis of (A).
Correct option: (1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)