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Mendel's Seven Contrasting Traits

NEET asked Mendel's Seven Contrasting Traits twice, in 2017 and 2022: 2 of the 1,875 questions in the 10 papers from 2017–2026. It belongs to Mendelian Inheritance, in Principles of Inheritance and Variation (Biology). The longest wait between two papers asking it was 5 years.

Updated 2026-10-08

Times asked: 2; in 2017–2026
Papers: 2; of 10
First asked: 2017; last in 2022
Chance next paper: 6%; calibrated historical rate

Questions on this idea, by paper

2017–2026. 2017 and 2022.

How NEET framed it

One-line MCQ is the usual form. Skill tested: recall.

Statement i/ii on mendel experiments
Odd-one-out among traits

Chance asked next paper 6%

Every question

All 2 questions

From the official NEET UG papers, newest first. Open one for the full question, the options and the official answer.

2022 Q 126 Given below are two statements : Statement I : Mendel studied seven pairs of contrasting traits in pea plants and proposed the Laws of\dots Two statements \cdot Medium 2017 Q 147 Among the following characters, which one was not considered by Mendel in his experiments on pea ? One-line MCQ \cdot Easy

Papers: NEET 2017, NEET 2022.

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