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NEET UG 2020 · Botany · Question 13

NEET 2020 Botany, question 13

Question 13 of the NEET 2020 paper (code E1) is a Botany question from Mineral Nutrition. Its idea, Nitrogenase Reaction Byproducts, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 4.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q13 · Botany

The product(s) of reaction catalyzed by nitrogenase in root nodules of leguminous plants is/are :

  1. 1Ammonia alone
  2. 2Nitrate alone
  3. 3Ammonia and oxygen
  4. 4Ammonia and hydrogenOfficial answer

Official answer: option 4 · NTA final answer key

Same idea

The only question on Nitrogenase Reaction Byproducts

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

Nitrogenase Reaction Byproducts: 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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