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NEET UG 2021 · Botany · Question 121

NEET 2021 Botany, question 121

Question 121 of the NEET 2021 paper (code O1) is a Botany question from Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants. Its idea, Types of Pollination, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 3.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q121 · Botany

The term used for transfer of pollen grains from anthers of one plant to stigma of a different plant which, during pollination, brings genetically different types of pollen grains to stigma, is :

  1. 1Chasmogamy
  2. 2Cleistogamy
  3. 3XenogamyOfficial answer
  4. 4Geitonogamy

Official answer: option 3 · NTA final answer key

Same idea

The only question on Types of Pollination

No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.

Types of Pollination: every question and how it was framed

The chapter

Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants in ten years of NEET

37 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 10 of 10 papers, about 3.6 a paper. Pollination Mechanisms alone had 15.

Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants: questions per paper

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