NEET UG 2020 · Botany · Question 46
NEET 2020 Botany, question 46
Question 46 of the NEET 2020 paper (code E1) is a Botany question from Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production. Its idea, Cross-breeding, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 3.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q46 · Botany
By which method was a new breed 'Hisardale' of sheep formed by using Bikaneri ewes and Marino rams ?
- 1Out crossing
- 2Mutational breeding
- 3Cross breedingOfficial answer
- 4Inbreeding
Official answer: option 3 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
The only question on Cross-breeding
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
The chapter
Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production in ten years of NEET
11 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 7 of 10 papers, about 1.0 a paper. Plant and Animal Breeding alone had 11.