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NEET UG 2025 · Botany · Question 157

NEET 2025 Botany, question 157

Question 157 of the NEET 2025 paper (code 45) is a Botany question from Organisms and Populations. Its idea, Fig and Wasp Co-evolution, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 2.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q157 · Botany

Given below are two statements:

Statement I: Fig fruit is a non-vegetarian fruit as it has enclosed fig wasps in it.

Statement II: Fig wasp and fig tree exhibit mutual relationship as fig wasp completes its life cycle in fig fruit and fig fruit gets pollinated by fig wasp.

In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

  1. 1Both statement I and statement II are correct
  2. 2Both statement I and statement II are incorrectOfficial answer
  3. 3Statement I is correct but statement II is incorrect
  4. 4Statement I is incorrect but statement II is correct

Official answer: option 2 · NTA final answer key

Same idea

The only question on Fig and Wasp Co-evolution

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

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The chapter

Organisms and Populations in ten years of NEET

31 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 9 of 10 papers, about 3.0 a paper. Population Interactions alone had 16.

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