NEET UG 2025 · Botany · Question 171
NEET 2025 Botany, question 171
Question 171 of the NEET 2025 paper (code 45) is a Botany question from Photosynthesis in Higher Plants. Its idea, RuBisCO Carboxylation, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 4.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q171 · Botany
Which of the following statements about RuBisCO is true?
- 1It is active only in the dark.
- 2It has higher affinity for oxygen than carbon dioxide.
- 3It is an enzyme involved in the photolysis of water.
- 4It catalyzes the carboxylation of RuBP.Official answer
Official answer: option 4 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
The only question on RuBisCO Carboxylation
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.