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NEET UG 2022 · Botany · Question 142

NEET 2022 Botany, question 142

Question 142 of the NEET 2022 paper (code R1) is a Botany question from Organisms and Populations. Its idea, Predation Concept (+/-), was asked twice, both in 2022, across NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 2.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q142 · Botany

While explaining interspecific interaction of population, (+) sign is assigned for beneficial interaction, (-) sign is assigned for detrimental interaction and (0) for neutral interaction. Which of the following interactions can be assigned (+) for one species and (-) for another species involved in the interaction ?

  1. 1Competition
  2. 2PredationOfficial answer
  3. 3Amensalism
  4. 4Commensalism

Official answer: option 2 · NTA final answer key

Same idea

Predation Concept (+/-), in other papers

NEET asked this idea twice, both in 2022. The other question below.

  • 2022 Q103Which one of the following statements cannot be connected to Predation ?One-line MCQ · Easy

Predation Concept (+/-): every question and how it was framed

The chapter

Organisms and Populations in ten years of NEET

31 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 9 of 10 papers, about 3.0 a paper. Population Interactions alone had 16.

Organisms and Populations: questions per paper

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