NEET UG 2022 · Botany · Question 118
NEET 2022 Botany, question 118
Question 118 of the NEET 2022 paper (code R1) is a Botany question from Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants. Its idea, Cleistogamous vs. Chasmogamous Flowers, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 2.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q118 · Botany
Given below are two statements :
Statement I :
Cleistogamous flowers are invariably autogamous
Statement II :
Cleistogamy is disadvantageous as there is no chance for cross pollination
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below :
- 1Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct
- 2Both Statement I and Statement II are correctOfficial answer
- 3Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect
- 4Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect
Official answer: option 2 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
The only question on Cleistogamous vs. Chasmogamous Flowers
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
Cleistogamous vs. Chasmogamous Flowers: 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.