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NEET UG 2020 · Botany · Question 85

NEET 2020 Botany, question 85

Question 85 of the NEET 2020 paper (code E1) is a Botany question from Respiration in Plants. Its idea, Substrate-Level vs Oxidative Phosphorylation, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 2.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q85 · Botany

The number of substrate level phosphorylations in one turn of citric acid cycle is :

  1. 1Zero
  2. 2OneOfficial answer
  3. 3Two
  4. 4Three

Official answer: option 2 · NTA final answer key

Same idea

The only question on Substrate-Level vs Oxidative Phosphorylation

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

Substrate-Level vs Oxidative Phosphorylation: 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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