NEET UG 2024 · Zoology · Question 166
NEET 2024 Zoology, question 166
Question 166 of the NEET 2024 paper (code T2) is a Zoology question from Structural Organisation in Animals. Its idea, Muscle Tissue Classification, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 4.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q166 · Zoology
Three types of muscles are given as a, b and c. Identify the correct matching pair along with their location in human body:
Name of muscle/location
The figure, described in words
Three muscle tissue micrographs: (a) striated skeletal fibres, (b) spindle-shaped smooth muscle cells, (c) branched cardiac fibres with intercalated discs
- 1(a) Skeletal - Biceps; (b) Involuntary - Intestine; (c) Smooth - Heart.
- 2(a) Involuntary - Nose tip; (b) Skeletal - Bone; (c) Cardiac - Heart.
- 3(a) Smooth - Toes; (b) Skeletal - Legs; (c) Cardiac - Heart.
- 4(a) Skeletal - Triceps; (b) Smooth - Stomach; (c) Cardiac - Heart.Official answer
Official answer: option 4 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
The only question on Muscle Tissue Classification
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
Muscle Tissue Classification: every question and how it was framed
The chapter
Structural Organisation in Animals in ten years of NEET
27 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 10 of 10 papers, about 2.6 a paper. Animal Tissues alone had 11.