Judge the following sentence according to the criteria given below: Reef-building corals are able to survive in nutrient-poor tropical waters BECAUSE they receive most of their nutrition from symbiotic zooxanthellae algae

A) The assertion and the reason are both correct, and the reason is valid.
B) The assertion and the reason are both correct, but the reason is invalid.
C) The assertion is correct, but the reason is incorrect.
D) The assertion is incorrect, but the reason is correct.
E) Both the assertion and the reason are incorrect.


A

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