NEET UG 2024 · Botany · Question 116
NEET 2024 Botany, question 116
Question 116 of the NEET 2024 paper (code T2) is a Botany question from Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants. Its idea, Hydrophily Mechanisms and Traps, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 2.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q116 · Botany
Identify the set of correct statements:
A. The flowers of are colourful and produce nectar.
B. The flowers of waterlily are not pollinated by water.
C. In most of water-pollinated species, the pollen grains are protected from wetting.
D. Pollen grains of some hydrophytes are long and ribbon like.
E. In some hydrophytes, the pollen grains are carried passively inside water.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
- 1A, C, D and E only
- 2B, C, D and E onlyOfficial answer
- 3C, D and E only
- 4A, B, C and D only
Official answer: option 2 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
The only question on Hydrophily Mechanisms and Traps
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
Hydrophily Mechanisms and Traps: every question and how it was framed
The chapter
Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants in ten years of NEET
37 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 10 of 10 papers, about 3.6 a paper. Pollination Mechanisms alone had 15.