Assertion: Outer membrane of mitochondria is homologous to outer membrane of gram negative bacteria present external to cell wall.

Reason: Both outer membrane of gram negative bacteria and mitochondria have porins. 

• A

  Both assertion and reason are correct and reason correctly explains the assertion.

• B

  Both assertion and reason are correct and reason does not correctly explains the assertion.

• C

  Assertion is correct and reason is incorrect

• D

  Both assertion and reason are incorrect.