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The Living World: NEET previous year questions

Every The Living World question from the official NEET papers on this site, with the answer and a worked solution.

The questions come from NEET 2026 and Re-NEET 2026. Each shows its answer and solution when you open it, so you can attempt it first. For what the chapter covers and how NEET tests it, see the The Living World guide.

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NEET 2026 · the full paper

  1. NEET 2026 · Q104

    Which one of the following statements is not true about the universal rules of binomial nomenclature?

    1. (1)

      Biological names are generally in Latin

    2. (2)

      Both the words in a biological name, when handwritten, are separately underlined or printed in italics

    3. (3)

      The specific epithet in the biological name starts with a small letter

    4. (4)

      The first word in the biological name represents the specific epithet, while the second component denotes the genus

    Answer and solution

    Answer: (4)

    In a binomial name, the genus comes first with an initial capital, and the specific epithet comes second with an initial lowercase letter. The words are Latinised and appear in italics in print or are separately underlined by hand. A claim that the second word denotes the genus reverses their roles and is false.

Re-NEET 2026 · the full paper

  1. Re-NEET 2026 · Q118

    Match List-I with List-II.

    List I

    List II

    P) Family

    I) Sapindales

    Q) Genus

    II) Dicotyledonae

    R) Class

    III) Anacardiaceae

    S) Division

    IV) Angiospermae

    T) Order

    V) Mangifera

    Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

    1. (1)

      P-I, Q-V, R-II, S-IV, T-III

    2. (2)

      P-II, Q-I, R-III, S-IV, T-V

    3. (3)

      P-II, Q-III, R-V, S-I, T-IV

    4. (4)

      P-III, Q-V, R-II, S-IV, T-I

    Answer and solution

    Answer: (4)

    NTA's paper printed Phylum in row S; it is corrected to Division, the rank NCERT uses for plants. For mango, the genus is Mangifera (Q-V), the family is Anacardiaceae (P-III), the order is Sapindales (T-I), the class is Dicotyledonae (R-II), and the division is Angiospermae (S-IV). Therefore option (4) is correct. NCERT Class 11, The Living World.

  2. Re-NEET 2026 · Q119

    Arrange the following taxonomic categories in ascending order.

    Statement I: Genus
    Statement II: Class
    Statement III: Order
    Statement IV: Phylum
    Statement V: Family
    Statement VI: Kingdom
    Statement VII: Species

    Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

    1. (1)

      (VII), (I), (V), (III), (II), (IV), (VI)

    2. (2)

      (I), (III), (IV), (VII), (VI), (II), (V)

    3. (3)

      (VII), (III), (IV), (II), (V), (I), (VI)

    4. (4)

      (VI), (III), (II), (VII), (IV), (V), (I)

    Answer and solution

    Answer: (1)

    Ascending order means starting from the smallest, most specific category and working up to the broadest. The hierarchy runs Species, Genus, Family, Order, Class, Phylum (Division in plants), Kingdom - which is exactly (VII), (I), (V), (III), (II), (IV), (VI). Moving up the ladder, the number of shared characters falls while the number of organisms included rises. NCERT Class 11, The Living World.

  3. Re-NEET 2026 · Q125

    Genus represents __________.

    1. (1)

      an individual plant or animal

    2. (2)

      a population of plants and animals

    3. (3)

      a group of closely related species

    4. (4)

      a group of closely related families

    Answer and solution

    Answer: (3)

    A genus sits one rung above species and gathers together species that share a set of characters not found in other genera. Panthera, for instance, includes the lion, tiger and leopard. It is the first word of every binomial name, which is why it is always written with a capital letter. NCERT Class 11, The Living World.

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