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Correct Answer: Option (C) — A is true but R is false
Concept & Option Breakdown
Standard Reference VerifiedAssertion (A) is true: Dolly the sheep (born 1996) was the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell.
Reason (R) is false: Dolly was not produced via in vitro fertilization (which involves fusion of sperm and ovum). She was cloned via Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT), where a somatic cell nucleus was placed into an enucleated ovum.
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