NEET UG 2022 · Botany · Question 148
NEET 2022 Botany, question 148
Question 148 of the NEET 2022 paper (code R1) is a Botany question from Plant Kingdom. Its idea, Independent Alternation of Generations, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 3.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q148 · Botany
Match the plant with the kind of life cycle it exhibits :
| List - I | List - II |
|---|---|
| (a) Spirogyra | (i) Dominant diploid sporophyte vascular plant, with highly reduced male or female gametophyte |
| (b) Fern | (ii) Dominant haploid free-living gametophyte |
| (c) Funaria | (iii) Dominant diploid sporophyte alternating with reduced gametophyte called prothallus |
| (d) Cycas | (iv) Dominant haploid leafy gametophyte alternating with partially dependent multicellular sporophyte |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
- 1(a)-(ii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(iii)
- 2(a)-(iv), (b)-(i), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iii)
- 3(a)-(ii), (b)-(iii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(i)Official answer
- 4(a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
Official answer: option 3 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
The only question on Independent Alternation of Generations
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
Independent Alternation of Generations: every question and how it was framed
The chapter
Plant Kingdom in ten years of NEET
31 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 10 of 10 papers, about 3.0 a paper. Pteridophytes alone had 8.