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NEET UG 2021 · Botany · Question 148

NEET 2021 Botany, question 148

Question 148 of the NEET 2021 paper (code O1) is a Botany question from Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants. Its idea, Extended Pollen Viability Families, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 2.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q148 · Botany

In some members of which of the following pairs of families, pollen grains retain their viability for months after release ?

  1. 1Poaceae ; Solanaceae
  2. 2Rosaceae ; LeguminosaeOfficial answer
  3. 3Poaceae ; Rosaceae
  4. 4Poaceae ; Leguminosae

Official answer: option 2 · NTA final answer key

Same idea

The only question on Extended Pollen Viability Families

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

Extended Pollen Viability Families: 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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