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NEET UG 2019 · Botany · Question 131

NEET 2019 Botany, question 131

Question 131 of the NEET 2019 paper (code P1) is a Botany question from Mineral Nutrition. Its idea, Denitrifying Bacteria, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 4.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q131 · Botany

Thiobacillus is a group of bacteria helpful in carrying out :

  1. 1Nitrogen fixation
  2. 2Chemoautotrophic fixation
  3. 3Nitrification
  4. 4DenitrificationOfficial answer

Official answer: option 4 · NTA final answer key

Same idea

The only question on Denitrifying Bacteria

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

Denitrifying Bacteria: every question and how it was framed

The chapter

Mineral Nutrition in ten years of NEET

12 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 8 of 10 papers, about 1.1 a paper. Nitrogen Fixation alone had 6.

Mineral Nutrition: questions per paper

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