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NEET UG 2019 · Botany · Question 159

NEET 2019 Botany, question 159

Question 159 of the NEET 2019 paper (code P1) is a Botany question from Biological Classification. Its idea, Yeast as a Unicellular Exception, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 4.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q159 · Botany

Which of the following statements is incorrect ?

  1. 1Morels and truffles are edible delicacies.
  2. 2Claviceps is a source of many alkaloids and LSD.
  3. 3Conidia are produced exogenously and ascospores endogenously.
  4. 4Yeasts have filamentous bodies with long thread-like hyphae.Official answer

Official answer: option 4 · NTA final answer key

Same idea

The only question on Yeast as a Unicellular Exception

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

Yeast as a Unicellular Exception: every question and how it was framed

The chapter

Biological Classification in ten years of NEET

26 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 9 of 10 papers, about 2.5 a paper. Kingdom Fungi alone had 9.

Biological Classification: questions per paper

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