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NEET UG 2025 · Botany · Question 164

NEET 2025 Botany, question 164

Question 164 of the NEET 2025 paper (code 45) is a Botany question from Biodiversity and Conservation. Its idea, The Evil Quartet Concept, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 2.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q164 · Botany

Match List I with List II:

List IList II
A. The Evil QuartetI. Cryopreservation
B. Ex situ conservationII. Alien species invasion
C. Lantana camaraIII. Causes of biodiversity losses
D. DodoIV. Extinction

Choose the option with all correct matches.

  1. 1A-III, B-II, C-I, D-IV
  2. 2A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IVOfficial answer
  3. 3A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
  4. 4A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I

Official answer: option 2 · NTA final answer key

Same idea

The only question on The Evil Quartet Concept

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

The Evil Quartet Concept: every question and how it was framed

The chapter

Biodiversity and Conservation in ten years of NEET

22 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 9 of 10 papers, about 2.1 a paper. Biodiversity Loss alone had 5.

Biodiversity and Conservation: questions per paper

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