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NEET UG 2022 · Botany · Question 149

NEET 2022 Botany, question 149

Question 149 of the NEET 2022 paper (code R1) is a Botany question from Transport in Plants. Its idea, Solute Potential Effect, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 3.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q149 · Botany

Addition of more solutes in a given solution will :

  1. 1not affect the water potential at all
  2. 2raise its water potential
  3. 3lower its water potentialOfficial answer
  4. 4make its water potential zero

Official answer: option 3 · NTA final answer key

Same idea

The only question on Solute Potential Effect

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

Solute Potential Effect: every question and how it was framed

The chapter

Transport in Plants in ten years of NEET

13 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 7 of 10 papers, about 1.2 a paper. Water Potential alone had 4.

Transport in Plants: questions per paper

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