NEET UG 2025 · Botany · Question 153
NEET 2025 Botany, question 153
Question 153 of the NEET 2025 paper (code 45) is a Botany question from Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants. Its idea, Microsporangium Wall and Tapetum, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 1.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q153 · Botany
Given below are two statements; One is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Cells of the tapetum possess dense cytoplasm and generally have more than one nucleus.
Reason (R): Presence of more than one nucleus in the tapetum increases the efficiency of nourishing the developing microspore mother cells.
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
- 1Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of AOfficial answer
- 2Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
- 3A is true but R is false
- 4A is false but R is true
Official answer: option 1 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
The only question on Microsporangium Wall and Tapetum
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
Microsporangium Wall and Tapetum: 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. Anther, Ovule and Embryo Sac Development alone had 11.