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NEET UG 2022 · Botany · Question 117

NEET 2022 Botany, question 117

Question 117 of the NEET 2022 paper (code R1) is a Botany question from Cell Cycle and Cell Division. Its idea, Prophase Events, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 4.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q117 · Botany

Which one of the following never occurs during mitotic cell division ?

  1. 1Coiling and condensation of the chromatids
  2. 2Spindle fibres attach to kinetochores of chromosomes
  3. 3Movement of centrioles towards opposite poles
  4. 4Pairing of homologous chromosomesOfficial answer

Official answer: option 4 · NTA final answer key

Same idea

The only question on Prophase Events

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

Prophase Events: 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. Mitotic Division alone had 21.

Cell Cycle and Cell Division: questions per paper

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