Q.Consider the following statements and choose the right option.
Step 1. Statement (i) says cereals are members of the grass family. This is exactly how the chapter defines a cereal: a member of Poaceae grown for its starchy, edible seed. So (i) is true.
Step 2. Statement (ii) says most food grains come from monocotyledons. Every plant in the grass family, Poaceae, is botanically a monocotyledon, and the chapter itself notes that the world's food base rests overwhelmingly on three grass species — rice, wheat and maize. Since these grasses are monocots, statement (ii) follows directly and is also true.
Step 3. Because both statements check out against the textbook's own classification, the option that says both are correct is the one that fits.
Option (b): both statement (i) and statement (ii) are correct.
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