Questions
27
across 8 papers
Share of subject
6.7%
of 405 Botany Qs
Weightage rank
#4
of 21 chapters
Difficulty
12 easy · 12 medium · 3 hard
Cell Cycle and Cell Division contributed 27 of the 405 NEET Botany questions between 2020 and 2026 (Re-NEET 2026 included). That is 6.7% of the subject and makes it the #4 chapter out of 21 by weightage — roughly 3.4 questions per paper, peaking at 6 in NEET 2023.
Of the 27 questions tagged for difficulty, 44% were easy, 45% medium and 11% hard — a fairly balanced mix of easy and moderate questions.
It has been asked less often lately: 1.3 questions per paper across NEET 2025, NEET 2026 and Re-NEET 2026, against 4.3 in 2020–2022.
The single most-tested topic is Meiosis (Meiosis I) — 9 questions across 6 papers.
7 topics tagged under Cell Cycle and Cell Division. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meiosis (Meiosis I) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | – | – | 1 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 |
| M Phase (Mitosis) | – | 1 | 2 | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | 5 | 3 | 2 | – |
| Interphase (G1 Phase) | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Interphase (S Phase) | – | 1 | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | 3 | 2 | 1 | – |
| Meiosis (Meiosis II) | – | 1 | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | 3 | 1 | 2 | – |
| Phases of the Cell Cycle (Interphase) | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | – |
| Interphase (G2 Phase) | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 |
In the NEET papers from 2020 to 2026 (including Re-NEET 2026), 27 Botany questions came from Cell Cycle and Cell Division — 6.7% of the subject, or about 3.4 per paper.
By past weightage it ranks #4 of 21 Botany chapters, so it is one of the five highest-weightage Botany chapters, with 27 questions over 2020–2026.
The most-tested topics are Meiosis (Meiosis I) (9), M Phase (Mitosis) (5) and Interphase (G1 Phase) (4). The topic table above lists every topic with its count in each paper.
Of the 27 difficulty-tagged questions, 44% were easy, 45% medium and 11% hard.
Meiosis (Meiosis I), Interphase (G1 Phase) and Phases of the Cell Cycle (Interphase) were asked in the 2026 papers.
Edurack has chapter-wise NEET previous-year questions for Cell Cycle and Cell Division. 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.