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NEET UG 2018 · Botany · Question 170

NEET 2018 Botany, question 170

Question 170 of the NEET 2018 paper (code AA) is a Botany question from Respiration in Plants. Its idea, Matrix Location of TCA Enzymes, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The CBSE official answer key gives option 4.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q170 · Botany

Which of these statements is incorrect ?

  1. 1Glycolysis operates as long as it is supplied with NAD that can pick up hydrogen atoms.
  2. 2Glycolysis occurs in cytosol.
  3. 3Enzymes of TCA cycle are present in mitochondrial matrix.
  4. 4Oxidative phosphorylation takes place in outer mitochondrial membrane.Official answer

Official answer: option 4 · CBSE official answer key

Same idea

The only question on Matrix Location of TCA Enzymes

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

Matrix Location of TCA Enzymes: every question and how it was framed

The chapter

Respiration in Plants in ten years of NEET

15 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 10 of 10 papers, about 1.4 a paper. TCA Cycle alone had 8.

Respiration in Plants: questions per paper

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