NEET UG 2023 · Botany · Question 145
NEET 2023 Botany, question 145
Question 145 of the NEET 2023 paper (code G6) is a Botany question from Morphology of Flowering Plants. Its idea, Flower as a Modified Shoot, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 2.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q145 · Botany
Given below are two statements : One is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R :
Assertion A : A flower is defined as modified shoot wherein the shoot apical meristem changes to floral meristem.
Reason R : Internode of the shoot gets condensed to produce different floral appendages laterally at successive nodes instead of leaves.
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.Official answer
- 3Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A.
- 4A is true but R is false.
Official answer: option 2 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
The only question on Flower as a Modified Shoot
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
Flower as a Modified Shoot: every question and how it was framed
The chapter
Morphology of Flowering Plants in ten years of NEET
28 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 10 of 10 papers, about 2.7 a paper. Flower Structure alone had 19.