Discussion
Assertion (A): Intermediate filaments are especially abundant in epithelial cells of the skin.
Reason (R): Such cells are subject to repeated mechanical stress and must resist tearing.
Answer: C
Both are true and the reason accounts for the abundance: keratin filaments anchored at desmosomes distribute stress across a whole sheet of cells, and inherited faults in them cause skin that blisters at slight friction.
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