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NEET UG 2021 · Zoology · Question 176

NEET 2021 Zoology, question 176

Question 176 of the NEET 2021 paper (code O1) is a Zoology question from Cell Cycle and Cell Division. Its idea, Terminalisation, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 1.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q176 · Zoology

Which stage of meiotic prophase shows terminalisation of chiasmata as its distinctive feature ?

  1. 1DiakinesisOfficial answer
  2. 2Pachytene
  3. 3Leptotene
  4. 4Zygotene

Official answer: option 1 · NTA final answer key

Same idea

The only question on Terminalisation

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

Terminalisation: every question and how it was framed

The chapter

Cell Cycle and Cell Division in ten years of NEET

32 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 10 of 10 papers, about 3.0 a paper. Meiotic Prophase I alone had 11.

Cell Cycle and Cell Division: questions per paper

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