NEET UG 2021 · Botany · Question 116
NEET 2021 Botany, question 116
Question 116 of the NEET 2021 paper (code O1) is a Botany question from Evolution. Its idea, Founder Effect in Adaptive Radiation, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 2.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q116 · Botany
The factor that leads to Founder effect in a population is :
- 1Mutation
- 2Genetic driftOfficial answer
- 3Natural selection
- 4Genetic recombination
Official answer: option 2 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
The only question on Founder Effect in Adaptive Radiation
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
Founder Effect in Adaptive Radiation: every question and how it was framed
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Evolution in ten years of NEET
28 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 10 of 10 papers, about 2.7 a paper. Natural Selection alone had 11.