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NEET UG 2025 · Botany · Question 140

NEET 2025 Botany, question 140

Question 140 of the NEET 2025 paper (code 45) is a Botany question from Cell: The Unit of Life. Its idea, Cis and Trans Faces of Golgi, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 1.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q140 · Botany

Given below are two statements : one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).

Assertion (A) : The primary function of the Golgi apparatus is to package the materials made by the endoplasmic reticulum and deliver it to intracellular targets and outside the cell.

Reason (R) : Vesicles containing materials made by the endoplasmic reticulum fuse with the cis face of the Golgi apparatus, and they are modified and released from the trans face of the Golgi apparatus.

In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below :

  1. 1Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of AOfficial answer
  2. 2Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A
  3. 3A is true but R is false
  4. 4A is false but R is true

Official answer: option 1 · NTA final answer key

Same idea

The only question on Cis and Trans Faces of Golgi

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

Cis and Trans Faces of Golgi: every question and how it was framed

The chapter

Cell: The Unit of Life in ten years of NEET

36 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 10 of 10 papers, about 3.5 a paper. Endomembrane System and Cell Theory alone had 12.

Cell: The Unit of Life: questions per paper

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