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NEET UG 2023 · Botany · Question 144

NEET 2023 Botany, question 144

Question 144 of the NEET 2023 paper (code G6) is a Botany question from Organisms and Populations. Its idea, Interaction Matrix Decoding, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 3.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q144 · Botany

Match List I with List II :

List I (Interaction)List II (Species A and B)
A. MutualismI. +(A), O(B)
B. CommensalismII. −(A), O(B)
C. AmensalismIII. +(A), −(B)
D. ParasitismIV. +(A), +(B)

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

  1. 1A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
  2. 2A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III
  3. 3A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-IIIOfficial answer
  4. 4A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II

Official answer: option 3 · NTA final answer key

Same idea

The only question on Interaction Matrix Decoding

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

Interaction Matrix Decoding: every question and how it was framed

The chapter

Organisms and Populations in ten years of NEET

31 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 9 of 10 papers, about 3.0 a paper. Population Interactions alone had 16.

Organisms and Populations: questions per paper

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