NEET UG 2025 · Botany · Question 173
NEET 2025 Botany, question 173
Question 173 of the NEET 2025 paper (code 45) is a Botany question from Plant Growth and Development. Its idea, Auxin-Induced Parthenocarpy, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 1.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q173 · Botany
Read the following statements on plant growth and development.
A. Parthenocarpy can be induced by auxins.
B. Plant growth regulators can be involved in promotion as well as inhibition of growth.
C. Dedifferentiation is a pre-requisite for re-differentiation.
D. Abscisic acid is a plant growth promoter.
E. Apical dominance promotes the growth of lateral buds.
Choose the option with all correct statements.
- 1A, B, C onlyOfficial answer
- 2A, C, E only
- 3A, D, E only
- 4B, D, E only
Official answer: option 1 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
The only question on Auxin-Induced Parthenocarpy
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
Auxin-Induced Parthenocarpy: every question and how it was framed
The chapter
Plant Growth and Development in ten years of NEET
23 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 9 of 10 papers, about 2.2 a paper. Plant Growth Regulators alone had 15.