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NEET UG 2024 · Botany · Question 136

NEET 2024 Botany, question 136

Question 136 of the NEET 2024 paper (code T2) is a Botany question from Plant Kingdom. Its idea, Phaeophyceae Structure, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 1.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q136 · Botany

Read the following statements and choose the set of correct statements:

In the members of Phaeophyceae,

A. Asexual reproduction occurs usually by biflagellate zoospores.

B. Sexual reproduction is by oogamous method only.

C. Stored food is in the form of carbohydrates which is either mannitol or laminarin.

D. The major pigments found are chlorophyll a, c and carotenoids and xanthophyll.

E. Vegetative cells have a cellulosic wall, usually covered on the outside by gelatinous coating of algin.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

  1. 1A, C, D and E onlyOfficial answer
  2. 2A, B, C and E only
  3. 3A, B, C and D only
  4. 4B, C, D and E only

Official answer: option 1 · NTA final answer key

Same idea

The only question on Phaeophyceae Structure

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

Phaeophyceae Structure: 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. Algae Classification alone had 11.

Plant Kingdom: questions per paper

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