Photosynthesis in Green Parts Beyond Leaves — NEET Biology
📚 Practice ConceptYou would of course answer: in 'the green leaf' or 'in the chloroplasts', based on what you earlier read in Chapter 8. You are definitely right. Photosynthesis does take place in the green leaves of plants but it does so also in other green parts of the plants. Can you name some other parts where you think photosynthesis may occur?
Assertion (A): Photosynthesis occurs in various parts of plants. Reason (R): Photosynthesis takes place only in the green leaves of plants.
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Correct answer: C — If assertion is true but reason is false.
NCERT states “Photosynthesis does take place in the green leaves of plants but it does so also in other green parts of the plants” - the Assertion correctly reflects that photosynthesis occurs in various parts (true). However, the Reason incorrectly limits photosynthesis to only leaves, contradicting NCERT’s statement about “other green parts” (false). This tests understanding that any green tissue can photosynthesize.
What does NCERT say about You would course answer?
Has this concept appeared in NEET?
Which chapter is this from?
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.
176/180MedicNEET's Biology question bank is built from the same NCERT lines NTA picks repeatedly. Not random MCQs — questions crafted exactly like NTA crafts them.