NEET UG · Biology · Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production
Plant and Animal Breeding: NEET previous year questions
This topic’s chapter, Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production, is not in the NEET UG 2026 syllabus. It had 11 questions from 2017 to 2024; they are kept here for reference.
- Asked in 10 years
- 11
- about 1.0 per paper
- Years asked
- 7/10
- last asked 2024
- Syllabus
- Dropped
- not in NEET UG 2026
- Last asked
- 2024
- 2 papers ago
Key findings
- 01
Asked in 7 of 10 papers, 11 questions in all: #71 of 204 topics by ten-year total. It comes back every 1.2 years on average. Last asked in 2024.
- 02
80% of its questions since 2018 tested an idea never asked before; 1 repeated an idea from the year before.
- 03
The most repeated idea is Advantages of Inbreeding and Inbreeding Depression, asked 2 times (2019, 2023), usually as “identify non-advantage of a breeding method”.
- 04
NEET has asked 0 of the 13 ideas in this topic; 0 have never been asked, directly or indirectly.
- 05
Mostly asked as one-line MCQ (91%); 45% easy, 0% hard, and down from 1.2 to 0.6 questions a paper since 2024.
Questions per year
- Up to 2023
- 1.2
- per paper
- Since 2024
- 0.6
- -0.6
- Usual gap
- 1.2 yrs
- between papers asking it
- Swing
- ±1.0
- questions, year to year
How it is asked
Difficulty, format and skill
Across all 11 questions on Plant and Animal Breeding since 2017.
Difficulty
QUESTIONS- Easy5 · 45%
- Medium6 · 55%
- Hard0 · 0%
Format
SHARE- One-line MCQ · 10 Q91%
- Match the lists · 1 Q9%
Skill tested
SHARE- Recall · 7 Q64%
- Concept · 4 Q36%
Repeats
New idea, or one asked before?
Each column is a paper. Blue questions tested an idea NEET had not asked before; navy ones went back to an idea from an earlier paper. 2017 is the first paper, so everything in it counts as new.
- Idea asked for the first time
- Idea asked in an earlier paper
Coverage of the topic
NEET has asked 0 of the 13 ideas in this topic. 0 have never been asked yet.
- Asked directly0 · 0%
- Touched inside another question13 · 100%
- Never asked0 · 0%
Ideas come from Lumi’s syllabus map of NCERT. A never-asked idea is not a safe skip: most new questions come from exactly these.
Drill down
Idea, year, question
Every idea NEET tested in this topic, with its ten papers. Open one to read the questions.
- Repeated2 · 18%
- 2023 · Q195Which one of the following is NOT an advantage of inbreeding?
mediumOne-line MCQ
- 2019 · Q124Select the incorrect statement.
mediumOne-line MCQNew idea
- 2023 · Q195
- Repeated2 · 18%
- 1 · 9%
- 1 · 9%
- 1 · 9%
- 1 · 9%
- 1 · 9%
- 1 · 9%
- 1 · 9%
Squares are the ten papers, 2017 to 2026; darker means more questions. Share is of the level above.
Ideas
Every idea inside this topic
9 different ideas were tested; 2 came more than once.
- Advantages of Inbreeding and Inbreeding Depression2×
identify non-advantage of a breeding method
One-line MCQ · 4% next - Biofortification2×
definition recall
One-line MCQ · 4% next - Somatic Hybridisation1×
identify fused material in a technique
One-line MCQ · 4% next - Totipotency and Tissue Culture1×
definition recall
One-line MCQ · 4% next - Micropropagation and Meristem Culture1×
match list on tissue culture terms
Match the lists · 4% next - Multiple Ovulation Embryo Transfer1×
identify incorrect step in a technology
One-line MCQ · 4% next - Mutation Breeding1×
identify agent causing a process
One-line MCQ · 4% next - Cross-breeding1×
identify breeding method for example
One-line MCQ · 4% next - Inbreeding and Pure Lines1×
true statement selection on breeding
One-line MCQ · 4% next
Chance next is the historical rate at which an idea with this record came back in the following paper. It is low for every idea, which is why learning the topic beats memorising past questions. All repeated ideas
Every question
Plant and Animal Breeding questions, year by year
The opening words of each question as it appeared in the official paper, with the idea it tested.
NEET 20242 questions
- Q110The capacity to generate a whole plant from any cell of the plant is called:
Idea: Totipotency and Tissue Culture
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ - Q140Which of the following are fused in somatic hybridization involving two varieties of plants?
Idea: Somatic Hybridisation
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ
NEET 20231 question
- Q195Which one of the following is NOT an advantage of inbreeding?
Idea: Advantages of Inbreeding and Inbreeding Depression
MediumOne-line MCQ
NEET 20221 question
- Q170Breeding crops with higher levels of vitamins and minerals or higher proteins and healthier fats is called :
Idea: Biofortification
Asked last yearEasyOne-line MCQ
NEET 20214 questions
- Q109Mutations in plant cells can be induced by :
Idea: Mutation Breeding
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ - Q128Match List - I with List - II. List - I | List - II (a) Protoplast fusion | (i) Totipotency (b) Plant tissue culture | (ii) Pomato (c)…
Idea: Micropropagation and Meristem Culture
New ideaMediumMatch the lists - Q160Which of the following is not an objective of Biofortification in crops ?
Idea: Biofortification
New ideaEasyOne-line MCQ - Q188Which of the following is not a step in Multiple Ovulation Embryo Transfer Technology (MOET) ?
Idea: Multiple Ovulation Embryo Transfer
New ideaMediumOne-line MCQ
NEET 20201 question
- Q46By which method was a new breed 'Hisardale' of sheep formed by using Bikaneri ewes and Marino rams ?
Idea: Cross-breeding
New ideaMediumOne-line MCQ
NEET 20191 question
- Q124Select the incorrect statement.
Idea: Advantages of Inbreeding and Inbreeding Depression
New ideaMediumOne-line MCQ
NEET 20171 question
- Q155Homozygous purelines in cattle can be obtained by :
Idea: Inbreeding and Pure Lines
MediumOne-line MCQ
Questions from the official NEET UG papers published by NTA (CBSE before 2019). Topic and idea tags, counts and notes are Lumi’s.
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