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NEET UG 2022 · Botany · Question 138

NEET 2022 Botany, question 138

Question 138 of the NEET 2022 paper (code R1) is a Botany question from Biomolecules. Its idea, Lipid Structure and Esters, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 4.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q138 · Botany

Read the following statements on lipids and find out correct set of statements :

(a) Lecithin found in the plasma membrane is a glycolipid

(b) Saturated fatty acids possess one or more c=c bonds

(c) Gingely oil has lower melting point, hence remains as oil in winter

(d) Lipids are generally insoluble in water but soluble in some organic solvents

(e) When fatty acid is esterified with glycerol, monoglycerides are formed

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

  1. 1(a), (b) and (d) only
  2. 2(a), (b) and (c) only
  3. 3(a), (d) and (e) only
  4. 4(c), (d) and (e) onlyOfficial answer

Official answer: option 4 · NTA final answer key

Same idea

The only question on Lipid Structure and Esters

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

Lipid Structure and Esters: every question and how it was framed

The chapter

Biomolecules in ten years of NEET

33 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 10 of 10 papers, about 3.1 a paper. Biomolecule Structure alone had 33.

Biomolecules: questions per paper

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