NEET UG BIOLOGY MCQ: PHOTOSYNTHESIS IN HIGHER PLANTS

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Joseph Priestley observed that when mouse alone was placed in a closed bell jar with burning candle, it was suffocated and candle burning extinguished but when mouse was placed with a mint plant in the same bell jar, that mouse stayed alive and candle continued to burn. What he concluded from this experiment?

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Correct option: C

Both (a) and (b)

Option C is correct because Priestley's experiment showed that burning candles remove air and mint plants restore it, allowing the mouse to survive and the candle to continue burning.

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