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NEET UG 2024 · Botany · Question 139

NEET 2024 Botany, question 139

Question 139 of the NEET 2024 paper (code T2) is a Botany question from Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants. Its idea, Inflorescence Adaptation in Wind Pollination, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 3.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q139 · Botany

Identify the correct description about the given figure:

The figure, described in words

Drawing of an elongated spike-like inflorescence with many flowers bearing long, dangling, well-exposed stamens.

  1. 1Cleistogamous flowers showing autogamy.
  2. 2Compact inflorescence showing complete autogamy.
  3. 3Wind pollinated plant inflorescence showing flowers with well exposed stamens.Official answer
  4. 4Water pollinated flowers showing stamens with mucilaginous covering.

Official answer: option 3 · NTA final answer key

Same idea

The only question on Inflorescence Adaptation in Wind Pollination

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

Inflorescence Adaptation in Wind Pollination: 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.

Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants: questions per paper

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