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NEET UG 2021 · Biology · 100 questions

NEET 2021 Biology, question by question

The NEET 2021 Biology section had 100 questions from 34 chapters: 69 easy, 29 medium and 2 hard. 69% were easy, 8 points above the 2017–2026 average for Biology, and 48 (48%) came from Class 12. Molecular Basis of Inheritance had the most, 9 questions.

Updated 2026-10-08

Questions
100
50% of the paper
Chapters asked
34
3 usual chapters skipped
Easy
69%
2017–2026 average 61%
From Class 12
48%
2017–2026 average 49%

The section

What Biology asked in 2021

Class balance, difficulty and the form of the questions. Bars below compare Biology across every paper from 2017–2026.

Botany and Zoology

5050
  • Botany
  • Zoology

Class 11 and 12

5248
  • Class 11
  • Class 12

Difficulty

6929
  • Easy
  • Medium
  • Hard
New ideas
83 (83%)
Use a figure
1

Question pattern

BIOLOGY 2021
  • Recall59%
  • Concept18%
  • Match the lists17%
  • Application2%
  • Calculation2%
  • Assertion–reason1%
  • Two statements1%

Chapters

The 2021 Biology chapter split

All 34 Biology chapters asked, and which got more or less than usual: the chapter’s ten-year average per 180 questions. Counts are scaled to 180 questions so years compare fairly.

Every chapter asked

Not asked this year: Biodiversity and Conservation, Excretory Products and their Elimination, Neural Control and Coordination.

More than usual

Less than usual, or skipped

Every question

All 100 Biology questions of NEET 2021

Open any question for the full text, the options and the official answer. “New idea” means no earlier paper had tested it.

Subject
Difficulty
Idea
100 of 100 questions

Botany50 questions

35 easy13 medium2 hard

Zoology50 questions

34 easy16 medium0 hard

Questions from the official NEET UG 2021 paper (NTA). Chapter, topic and idea tags and difficulty are Lumi’s.