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NEET UG 2022 · Botany · Question 137

NEET 2022 Botany, question 137

Question 137 of the NEET 2022 paper (code R1) is a Botany question from Photosynthesis in Higher Plants. Its idea, Kranz Anatomy, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 3.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q137 · Botany

What is the role of large bundle shealth cells found around the vascular bundles in C4\mathrm{C_4} plants ?

  1. 1To protect the vascular tissue from high light intensity
  2. 2To provide the site for photorespiratory pathway
  3. 3To increase the number of chloroplasts for the operation of Calvin cycleOfficial answer
  4. 4To enable the plant to tolerate high temperature

Official answer: option 3 · NTA final answer key

Same idea

The only question on Kranz Anatomy

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

Kranz Anatomy: every question and how it was framed

The chapter

Photosynthesis in Higher Plants in ten years of NEET

23 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 9 of 10 papers, about 2.2 a paper. Calvin and Hatch-Slack Cycles alone had 14.

Photosynthesis in Higher Plants: questions per paper

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