NEET UG 2026 · Botany · Question 163
NEET 2026 Botany, question 163
Question 163 of the NEET 2026 paper (re-exam) is a Botany question from Organisms and Populations. Its idea, J-shaped vs S-shaped Growth Curves, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 1.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q163 · Botany
Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R.
Assertion A: The logistic growth model of populations is considered more realistic than the exponential growth model.
Reason R: Resources are finite.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
- 1Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of AOfficial answer
- 2Both A and R are correct but R is not the correct explanation of A
- 3A is correct but R is not correct
- 4A is not correct but R is correct
Official answer: option 1 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
The only question on J-shaped vs S-shaped Growth Curves
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
J-shaped vs S-shaped Growth Curves: 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.