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NEET UG 2024 · Botany · Question 118

NEET 2024 Botany, question 118

Question 118 of the NEET 2024 paper (code T2) is a Botany question from Principles of Inheritance and Variation. Its idea, Law of Dominance Postulates, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 4.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q118 · Botany

Which one of the following can be explained on the basis of Mendel's Law of Dominance?

A. Out of one pair of factors one is dominant and the other is recessive.

B. Alleles do not show any expression and both the characters appear as such in F2_2 generation.

C. Factors occur in pairs in normal diploid plants.

D. The discrete unit controlling a particular character is called factor.

E. The expression of only one of the parental characters is found in a monohybrid cross.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

  1. 1B, C and D only
  2. 2A, B, C, D and E
  3. 3A, B and C only
  4. 4A, C, D and E onlyOfficial answer

Official answer: option 4 · NTA final answer key

Same idea

The only question on Law of Dominance Postulates

No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.

Law of Dominance Postulates: 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. Mendelian Inheritance alone had 20.

Principles of Inheritance and Variation: questions per paper

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