NEET UG 2023 · Botany · Question 101
NEET 2023 Botany, question 101
Question 101 of the NEET 2023 paper (code G6) is a Botany question from Plant Kingdom. Its idea, Origin of the Moss Protonema, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 2.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q101 · Botany
Given below are two statements : One is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R :
Assertion A : The first stage of gametophyte in the life cycle of moss is protonema stage.
Reason R : Protonema develops directly from spores produced in capsule.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
- 1A is not correct but R is correct.
- 2Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A.Official answer
- 3Both A and R are correct but R is NOT the correct explanation of A.
- 4A is correct but R is not correct.
Official answer: option 2 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
The only question on Origin of the Moss Protonema
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
Origin of the Moss Protonema: every question and how it was framed
The chapter
Plant Kingdom in ten years of NEET
31 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 10 of 10 papers, about 3.0 a paper. Bryophytes alone had 5.