NEET UG 2023 · Botany · Question 136
NEET 2023 Botany, question 136
Question 136 of the NEET 2023 paper (code G6) is a Botany question from Anatomy of Flowering Plants. Its idea, Bark and Lenticels, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 3.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q136 · Botany
Identify the correct statements :
A. Lenticels are the lens-shaped openings permitting the exchange of gases.
B. Bark formed early in the season is called hard bark.
C. Bark is a technical term that refers to all tissues exterior to vascular cambium.
D. Bark refers to periderm and secondary phloem.
E. Phellogen is single-layered in thickness.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
- 1B and C only
- 2B, C and E only
- 3A and D onlyOfficial answer
- 4A, B and D only
Official answer: option 3 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
The only question on Bark and Lenticels
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
The chapter
Anatomy of Flowering Plants in ten years of NEET
25 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 9 of 10 papers, about 2.4 a paper. Plant Tissues and Anatomy alone had 25.