Mineral Nutrition is a Class 11 Biology chapter that carries about 1.5% of the Biology questions in NEET. Practise it with 54 questions covering 3 topics, each with an explanation.
Sets of 15 questions that adapt to your level, with an explanation for every answer.
Across the 13 previous year papers, Mineral Nutrition had 15 questions, about 1.2 a year. The most in one paper was 2, in Re-AIPMT 2015.
| Paper | Questions from this chapter |
|---|---|
| NEET 2026 | 0 |
| NEET 2025 | 1 |
| NEET 2024 | 0 |
| NEET 2023 | 1 |
| NEET 2022 | 2 |
| NEET 2021 | 1 |
| NEET 2020 | 2 |
| NEET 2019 | 1 |
| NEET 2018 | 2 |
| NEET 2017 | 1 |
| NEET 2016 | 1 |
| Re-AIPMT 2015 | 2 |
| AIPMT 2014 | 1 |
8 questions from the practice bank, spread across the chapter's topics. The full set is in the app.
Chlorosis in older leaves first is characteristic of the deficiency of a nutrient that is:
Answer: B. readily mobile and remobilised to younger tissue
Why: Mobile nutrients such as nitrogen and magnesium are withdrawn from older leaves and sent to growing tissue, so deficiency symptoms appear in older leaves first.
Calcium is required by plants for the formation of:
Answer: A. the middle lamella (calcium pectate) and the spindle during cell division
Why: It is also needed for the normal function of membranes.
The nitrite is oxidised to the nitrate by:
Answer: A. Nitrobacter
Why: The process is nitrification, which is carried out by the chemoautotrophic bacteria.
Whiptail disease of cauliflower is caused by a deficiency of:
Answer: B. molybdenum
Why: Molybdenum is a component of nitrate reductase and nitrogenase.
Which of the following is a macronutrient?
Answer: B. nitrogen
Why: The micronutrients include Fe, Mn, Cu, Zn, B, Mo, Cl and Ni.
Plants such as the pitcher plant and the Venus fly-trap meet their nitrogen requirements by the:
Answer: B. trapping of the insects
Why: They are the insectivorous plants.
The deficiency symptoms of the mobile elements appear first in the:
Answer: D. senescent (older) leaves
Why: The elements move to the young growing tissues.
Zinc is needed by the plant for the:
Answer: D. synthesis of the auxin
Why: It activates the carboxylases.
Mineral Nutrition carries about 1.5% of the Biology questions in NEET. Across the 13 previous year papers on NeetVictory it appeared 15 times, about 1.2 questions a year.
Mineral Nutrition is a Class 11 Biology chapter in the NCERT syllabus.
NeetVictory has 54 practice questions on Mineral Nutrition, each with an explanation, in sets of 15 that adapt to your level. This page shows a free sample.
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