NEET UG 2023 · Botany · Question 138
NEET 2023 Botany, question 138
Question 138 of the NEET 2023 paper (code G6) is a Botany question from Plant Kingdom. Its idea, Wind Pollination and Pollen Tube, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 4.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q138 · Botany
Given below are two statements : One is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R :
Assertion A : In gymnosperms the pollen grains are released from the microsporangium and carried by air currents.
Reason R : Air currents carry the pollen grains to the mouth of the archegonia where the male gametes are discharged and pollen tube is not formed.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below :
- 1A is false but R is true.
- 2Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
- 3Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A.
- 4A is true but R is false.Official answer
Official answer: option 4 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
The only question on Wind Pollination and Pollen Tube
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
Wind Pollination and Pollen Tube: 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. Gymnosperms alone had 7.