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NEET UG 2022 · Zoology · Question 189

NEET 2022 Zoology, question 189

Question 189 of the NEET 2022 paper (code R1) is a Zoology question from Neural Control and Coordination. Its idea, Electrical and Chemical Synapses, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 1.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q189 · Zoology

Select the incorrect statement regarding synapses :

  1. 1Impulse transmission across a chemical synapse is always faster than that across an electrical synapse.Official answer
  2. 2The membranes of presynaptic and postsynaptic neurons are in close proximity in an electrical synapse.
  3. 3Electrical current can flow directly from one neuron into the other across the electrical synapse.
  4. 4Chemical synapses use neurotransmitters

Official answer: option 1 · NTA final answer key

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The only question on Electrical and Chemical Synapses

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

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The chapter

Neural Control and Coordination in ten years of NEET

15 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 8 of 10 papers, about 1.5 a paper. Neural System and Brain alone had 10.

Neural Control and Coordination: questions per paper

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