NEET UG 2024 · Zoology · Question 188
NEET 2024 Zoology, question 188
Question 188 of the NEET 2024 paper (code T2) is a Zoology question from Organisms and Populations. Its idea, Gause's Principle Limiting Condition, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 2.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q188 · Zoology
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Gause's competitive exclusion principle states that two closely related species competing for different resources cannot exist indefinitely.
Statement II: According to Gause's principle, during competition, the inferior will be eliminated. This may be true if resources are limiting.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
- 1Statement I is true but Statement II is false
- 2Statement I is false but Statement II is trueOfficial answer
- 3Both Statement I and Statement II are true
- 4Both Statement I and Statement II are false
Official answer: option 2 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
The only question on Gause's Principle Limiting Condition
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
Gause's Principle Limiting Condition: 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.