NEET UG 2026 · Botany · Question 161
NEET 2026 Botany, question 161
Question 161 of the NEET 2026 paper (re-exam) is a Botany question from Organisms and Populations. Its idea, Per Capita Birth/Death Rates, was asked twice, in 2022 and 2026, across NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 3.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q161 · Botany
Consider a population of 10 million cells. Given the per-capita birth rate of 0.002 (per unit time) and the per-capita death rate of 0.002 (per unit time), the expected number of cells after 10 generations is
- 11 million
- 25 million
- 310 millionOfficial answer
- 4100 million
Official answer: option 3 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
Per Capita Birth/Death Rates, in other papers
NEET asked this idea twice, in 2022 and 2026. The other question below.
- 2022 Q156If '8' Drosophila in a laboratory population of '80' died during a week, the death rate in the population is ______ individuals per…Numerical · Easy
Per Capita Birth/Death Rates: 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 Attributes alone had 12.