NEET UG 2026 · Botany · Question 100
NEET 2026 Botany, question 100
Question 100 of the NEET 2026 paper (re-exam) is a Botany question from Photosynthesis in Higher Plants. Its idea, Phosphoglycolate Formation, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 2.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q100 · Botany
Photorespiration reaction catalyzed by RuBisCo is shown below :
3-Phosphoglycerate + X
Identify "X" from the given options :
- 1Phosphoenolpyruvate
- 22-PhosphoglycolateOfficial answer
- 3Oxaloacetate
- 4Malate
Official answer: option 2 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
The only question on Phosphoglycolate Formation
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
Phosphoglycolate Formation: every question and how it was framed
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.