Animal Diversity vs Plant Diversity — NEET Biology
📚 Practice ConceptThe species diversity of plants (22 per cent) is much less than that of animals (72 per cent). What could be the explanations to how animals achieved greater diversification?
Assertion (A): All recorded species on Earth are animals. Reason (R): Animals show greater morphological diversity than plants in taxonomic classification.
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Correct answer: D — If the assertion is false but the reason is true.
NCERT explicitly states “More than 70 per cent of all the species recorded are animals, while plants (including algae, fungi, bryophytes, gymnosperms and angiosperms) comprise no more than 22 per cent of the total.” The Assertion removes the qualifier “more than 70 per cent” making it false - plants comprise 22% and other groups make up the remaining percentage. The Reason is independently true from NCERT’s discussion of animal morphological complexity, but doesn’t relate to the false Assertion.
What does NCERT say about species diversity plants 22?
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Through deep analysis of NEET and NTA, 176 of the 180 ReNEET 2026 (June 21) questions were already in the MedicNEET question bank before the exam.
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