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NEET UG 2021 · Botany · Question 141

NEET 2021 Botany, question 141

Question 141 of the NEET 2021 paper (code O1) is a Botany question from Morphology of Flowering Plants. Its idea, Floral Formula Symbols, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 3.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q141 · Botany

Match Column - I with Column - II.

Column - IColumn - II
(a) % ⚥ K(5)C1+2+(2)A(9)+1G‾1K_{(5)}C_{1+2+(2)}A_{(9)+1}\underline{G}_1(i) Brassicaceae
(b) ⊕ ⚥ K(5)C(5)A5⌢G‾2K_{(5)}\overset{\frown}{C_{(5)}A_5}\underline{G}_2(ii) Liliaceae
(c) ⊕ ⚥ P(3+3)A3+3⌢G‾(3)\overset{\frown}{P_{(3+3)}A_{3+3}}\underline{G}_{(3)}(iii) Fabaceae
(d) ⊕ ⚥ K2+2C4A2−4G‾(2)K_{2+2}C_4A_{2-4}\underline{G}_{(2)}(iv) Solanaceae

Select the correct answer from the options given below.

  1. 1(a)-(ii), (b)-(iii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(i)
  2. 2(a)-(iv), (b)-(ii), (c)-(i), (d)-(iii)
  3. 3(a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)Official answer
  4. 4(a)-(i), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iii), (d)-(iv)

Official answer: option 3 · NTA final answer key

Same idea

The only question on Floral Formula Symbols

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

Floral Formula Symbols: every question and how it was framed

The chapter

Morphology of Flowering Plants in ten years of NEET

28 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 10 of 10 papers, about 2.7 a paper. Floral Formulae and Plant Families alone had 1.

Morphology of Flowering Plants: questions per paper

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