NEET UG 2024 · Botany · Question 146
NEET 2024 Botany, question 146
Question 146 of the NEET 2024 paper (code T2) is a Botany question from Photosynthesis in Higher Plants. Its idea, Photorespiration (C2), was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 1.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q146 · Botany
Given below are two statements:
Statement I : In C plants, some O binds to RuBisCO, hence CO fixation is decreased.
Statement II : In C plants, mesophyll cells show very little photorespiration while bundle sheath cells do not show photorespiration.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
- 1Statement I is true but Statement II is falseOfficial answer
- 2Statement I is false but Statement II is true
- 3Both Statement I and Statement II are true
- 4Both Statement I and Statement II are false
Official answer: option 1 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
The only question on Photorespiration (C2)
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
The chapter
Photosynthesis in Higher Plants in ten years of NEET
23 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 9 of 10 papers, about 2.2 a paper. Calvin and Hatch-Slack Cycles alone had 14.