Pauli exclusion principle and fermions, bosons and quarks

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Homework Statement



Which of these particles don't follow Pauli exclusion principle and thus have a symmetric wave function?

a) Bosons
b) Fermions
c) Quarks
d) All particles follow Pauli exclusion principle

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The Attempt at a Solution



I think that fermions follow Pauli exclusion principle and have anti-symmetric wave functions, and quarks are fermions, so b) and c) must be wrong.

I think that bosons don't follow Pauli exclusion principle and have symmetric wave functions and d) is obviously wrong, so the correct answer must be a).
 
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