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NEET UG 2017 · Botany · Question 173

NEET 2017 Botany, question 173

Question 173 of the NEET 2017 paper (code A) is a Botany question from Cell: The Unit of Life. Its idea, Bacterial Cell Envelope, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The CBSE official answer key gives option 4.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q173 · Botany

Which of the following components provides sticky character to the bacterial cell ?

  1. 1Cell wall
  2. 2Nuclear membrane
  3. 3Plasma membrane
  4. 4GlycocalyxOfficial answer

Official answer: option 4 · CBSE official answer key

Same idea

The only question on Bacterial Cell Envelope

No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.

Bacterial Cell Envelope: every question and how it was framed

The chapter

Cell: The Unit of Life in ten years of NEET

36 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 10 of 10 papers, about 3.5 a paper. Cell Wall Structure alone had 1.

Cell: The Unit of Life: questions per paper

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