Given below are two statements. One is labelled Assertion (A) and the other is labelled Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Impulse transmission across an electrical synapse is always faster than that across a chemical synapse.
Reason (R): At electrical synapses, the membranes of pre- and post-synaptic neurons are in very close proximity and electrical current can flow directly from one neuron to the other.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.

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Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

(A) is true but (R) is false.

Both (A) and (R) are false

Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

answer is A.

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Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

Impulse transmission across an electrical synapse is always faster than that across a chemical synapse, because the membranes of pre- and post-synaptic neurons are in very proximity and electrical current can flow directly from one neuron to the other in electrical synapses.

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