NEET UG 2023 · Botany · Question 125
NEET 2023 Botany, question 125
Question 125 of the NEET 2023 paper (code G6) is a Botany question from Transport in Plants. Its idea, Transpirational Cooling, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 2.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q125 · Botany
Given below are two statements :
Statement I : The forces generated by transpiration can lift a xylem-sized column of water over 130 meters height.
Statement II : Transpiration cools leaf surfaces sometimes 10 to 15 degrees, by evaporative cooling.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
- 1Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct.
- 2Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.Official answer
- 3Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.
- 4Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect.
Official answer: option 2 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
The only question on Transpirational Cooling
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
Transpirational Cooling: 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. Transpiration Pull alone had 9.