NEET UG 2018 · Botany · Question 171
NEET 2018 Botany, question 171
Question 171 of the NEET 2018 paper (code AA) is a Botany question from Cell: The Unit of Life. Its idea, Polytene Chromosomes and Balbiani Rings, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The CBSE official answer key gives option 4.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q171 · Botany
Select the incorrect match :
- 1Submetacentric chromosomes – L-shaped chromososmes
- 2Allosomes – Sex chromosomes
- 3Lampbrush chromosomes – Diplotene bivalents
- 4Polytene chromosomes – Oocytes of amphibiansOfficial answer
Official answer: option 4 · CBSE official answer key
Same idea
The only question on Polytene Chromosomes and Balbiani Rings
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
Polytene Chromosomes and Balbiani Rings: every question and how it was framed
The chapter
Cell: The Unit of Life in ten years of NEET
36 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 10 of 10 papers, about 3.5 a paper. Nuclear Organization alone had 8.