Questions
19
across 8 papers
Share of subject
4.7%
of 405 Botany Qs
Weightage rank
#12
of 21 chapters
Difficulty
3 easy · 13 medium · 3 hard
Anatomy of Flowering Plants contributed 19 of the 405 NEET Botany questions between 2020 and 2026 (Re-NEET 2026 included). That is 4.7% of the subject and makes it the #12 chapter out of 21 by weightage — roughly 2.4 questions per paper, peaking at 4 in NEET 2021.
Of the 19 questions tagged for difficulty, 16% were easy, 68% medium and 16% hard — mostly medium-level questions that reward practice beyond one-line facts.
It has been asked less often lately: 1 question per paper across NEET 2025, NEET 2026 and Re-NEET 2026, against 3.3 in 2020–2022.
The single most-tested topic is Secondary Growth (Stem) (Secondary Growth in Dicot Stem) — 3 questions across 3 papers.
10 topics tagged under Anatomy of Flowering Plants. Numbers show how many questions each topic had in each paper; E / M / H are the easy, medium and hard counts.
| Topic | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | Re | Total | E | M | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Secondary Growth (Stem) (Secondary Growth in Dicot Stem) | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 3 | – | 1 | 2 |
| Secondary Growth (Stem) (Vascular Cambium) | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | – | 3 | – |
| The Tissue System (Epidermal Tissue System) | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| The Tissue System (Vascular Tissue System) | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | 3 | 1 | 2 | – |
| Anatomy of Dicotyledonous and Monocotyledonous Plants (Anatomy of Monocotyledonous Stem) | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 2 | – | 2 | – |
| Anatomy of Dicotyledonous and Monocotyledonous Plants (Anatomy of Monocotyledonous (Isobilateral) Leaf) | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Anatomy of Dicotyledonous and Monocotyledonous Plants (Anatomy of Monocotyledonous Root) | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Permanent Tissues (Complex Tissues) | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Permanent Tissues (Simple Tissue) | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Secondary Growth (Stem) (Cork Cambium) | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
In the NEET papers from 2020 to 2026 (including Re-NEET 2026), 19 Botany questions came from Anatomy of Flowering Plants — 4.7% of the subject, or about 2.4 per paper.
By past weightage it ranks #12 of 21 Botany chapters, so it is a lower-weightage Botany chapter, with 19 questions over 2020–2026.
The most-tested topics are Secondary Growth (Stem) (Secondary Growth in Dicot Stem) (3), Secondary Growth (Stem) (Vascular Cambium) (3) and The Tissue System (Epidermal Tissue System) (3). The topic table above lists every topic with its count in each paper.
Of the 19 difficulty-tagged questions, 16% were easy, 68% medium and 16% hard.
The Tissue System (Epidermal Tissue System) and The Tissue System (Vascular Tissue System) were asked in the 2026 papers.
Edurack has chapter-wise NEET previous-year questions for Anatomy of Flowering Plants. Use the practice button on this page to open the set, attempt questions and check your answers.
Counts come from Edurack's tagged set of NEET papers 2020–2026 (including Re-NEET 2026), mapped to NCERT chapters and topics. Use them as a trend guide — past frequency doesn't guarantee what a future paper will ask.