NEET UG 2022 · Botany · Question 126
NEET 2022 Botany, question 126
Question 126 of the NEET 2022 paper (code R1) is a Botany question from Principles of Inheritance and Variation. Its idea, Mendel's Seven Contrasting Traits, was asked twice, in 2017 and 2022, across NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 2.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q126 · Botany
Given below are two statements :
Statement I :
Mendel studied seven pairs of contrasting traits in pea plants and proposed the Laws of Inheritance
Statement II :
Seven characters examined by Mendel in his experiment on pea plants were seed shape and colour, flower colour, pod shape and colour, flower position and stem height
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
Mendel's Seven Contrasting Traits, in other papers
NEET asked this idea twice, in 2017 and 2022. The other question below.
- 2017 Q147Among the following characters, which one was not considered by Mendel in his experiments on pea ?One-line MCQ · Easy
Mendel's Seven Contrasting Traits: every question and how it was framed
The chapter
Principles of Inheritance and Variation in ten years of NEET
43 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 10 of 10 papers, about 4.1 a paper. Mendelian Inheritance alone had 20.