NEET UG 2022 · Botany · Question 146
NEET 2022 Botany, question 146
Question 146 of the NEET 2022 paper (code R1) is a Botany question from Principles of Inheritance and Variation. Its idea, Exception to Independent Assortment, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 4.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q146 · Botany
Given below are two statements : one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A) :
Mendel's law of Independent assortment does not hold good for the genes that are located closely on the same chromosome.
Reason (R) :
Closely located genes assort independently.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below :
- 1(A) is not correct but (R) is correct
- 2Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
- 3Both (A) and (R) are correct but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
- 4(A) is correct but (R) is not correctOfficial answer
Official answer: option 4 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
The only question on Exception to Independent Assortment
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
Exception to Independent Assortment: 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. Linkage and Recombination alone had 6.