NEET Topics · Botany

🌱 Plant Growth and Development — NEET Weightage & Strategy

How Plant Growth and Development is tested in NEET (UG), its NCERT sub-concepts, and how to approach it in the exam.

1%
of the paper
~2
questions expected
Moderate
priority
~2m
time budget

🧭 How to approach Plant Growth and Development in the NEET exam

A steady contributor. Make sure the standard, NCERT-level questions from this chapter are automatic for you — these are the marks you can't afford to drop.

Botany is highly factual — NCERT line-by-line, including examples, exceptions and diagram labels. These are low-risk marks: aim for near-full accuracy here to bank a strong base before the calculation-heavy sections.

📋 Plant Growth and Development syllabus — sub-concepts NEET tests

The parts of this NCERT chapter that show up in NEET questions:

Growth phases & growth rateDifferentiation, dedifferentiation, redifferentiationAuxins & gibberellins functionsCytokinins, ethylene, ABA functionsPhotoperiodism & floweringVernalizationSeed dormancy & germination

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The Living World and Biological ClassificationPlant KingdomMorphology of Flowering PlantsAnatomy of Flowering PlantsCell: The Unit of LifeCell Cycle and Cell DivisionTransport and Mineral Nutrition in PlantsPhotosynthesis in Higher Plants