Assertion (A): Prions cause infectious neurological diseases like bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).
Reason (R): Prions are infectious agents composed of mis folded proteins that can induce abnormal folding of normal variants of the same protein in the brain.

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Prions cause infectious neurological diseases like bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).
Prions are infectious agents composed of mis folded proteins that can induce abnormal folding of normal variants of the same protein in the brain.

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