In water, frogs respire using ______.
Structural Organisation in Animals and Plants
9 lessons
Topic index in NCERT order
8 of 9 lessons by the NCERT chapter they teach from, in book order. The page is the first printed page of your NCERT book the lesson cites; PYQs are the past NEET questions on that topic.
Class 11 Biology, Chapter 5: Morphology of Flowering Plants
- Morphology Flowering Plantsp. 5812 PYQs
- Morphology Root Stemp. 582 PYQs
- Morphology Leaf Inflorescencep. 591 PYQ
- Morphology Fruit Seedp. 650 PYQs
Class 11 Biology, Chapter 6: Anatomy of Flowering Plants
- Anatomy Dicot Monocotp. 763 PYQs
- Anatomy Flowering Plantsp. 7711 PYQs
Class 11 Biology, Chapter 7: Structural Organisation in Animals
- Animal Tissuesp. 805 PYQs
- Frog Anatomyp. 8210 PYQs
Not tied to a page of the current NCERT book
Anatomy Dicot Monocot
Anatomy Flowering Plants
Animal Tissues
Families Fabaceae Solanaceae
Frog Anatomy
Morphology Flowering Plants
Morphology Fruit Seed
Morphology Leaf Inflorescence
Morphology Root Stem
NCERT lines NEET tested in this unit
Each line with its printed NCERT page and the past NEET questions that tested it.
Past-paper questions from this unit
49 questions from NEET 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026. Answers verified against NTA official keys.
By year in our set: 2020 (4) · 2021 (5) · 2022 (9) · 2023 (10) · 2024 (9) · 2025 (7) · 2026 (5)
Lesson: Frog Anatomy
Lesson: Morphology Leaf Inflorescence
Phyllotaxy is the pattern of arrangement of ______.
Lesson: Families Fabaceae Solanaceae
Lesson: Morphology Flowering Plants
Lesson: Frog Anatomy
In frogs, the number of pairs of cranial nerves arising from the brain are ______.
Lesson: Morphology Flowering Plants
Which of the following is an example of a zygomorphic flower?
Lesson: Frog Anatomy
Lesson: Frog Anatomy
In frog, the Renal portal system is a special venous connection that acts to link :
Lesson: Anatomy Dicot Monocot
Find the statement that is NOT correct with regard to the structure of monocot stem.
Lesson: Frog Anatomy
Which of the following statement is correct about location of the male frog copulatory pad?
Lesson: Morphology Flowering Plants
Lesson: Frog Anatomy
Lesson: Morphology Flowering Plants
Which of the following is an example of actinomorphic flower?
Lesson: Morphology Flowering Plants
Lesson: Anatomy Flowering Plants
Formation of interfascicular cambium from fully developed parenchyma cells is an example for
Lesson: Anatomy Flowering Plants
Bulliform cells are responsible for
Lesson: Morphology Flowering Plants
Lesson: Morphology Flowering Plants
Lesson: Frog Anatomy
Lesson: Frog Anatomy
Lesson: Animal Tissues
Lesson: Anatomy Flowering Plants
Lesson: Morphology Flowering Plants
Axile placentation is observed in
Lesson: Families Fabaceae Solanaceae
Lesson: Anatomy Flowering Plants
Lesson: Anatomy Flowering Plants
Lesson: Morphology Flowering Plants
Lesson: Anatomy Flowering Plants
Lesson: Animal Tissues
Lesson: Frog Anatomy
Which of the following is characteristic feature of cockroach regarding sexual dimorphism?
Lesson: Animal Tissues
Lesson: Anatomy Dicot Monocot
Lesson: Morphology Flowering Plants
Lesson: Anatomy Flowering Plants
Lesson: Morphology Root Stem
Lesson: Families Fabaceae Solanaceae
Which one of the following plants shows vexillary aestivation and diadelphous stamens?
Lesson: Anatomy Flowering Plants
Lesson: Anatomy Flowering Plants
Lesson: Animal Tissues
Which of the following is not a connective tissue?
Lesson: Animal Tissues
Lesson: Families Fabaceae Solanaceae
Diadelphous stamens are found in
Lesson: Anatomy Flowering Plants
Lesson: Anatomy Dicot Monocot
Lesson: Families Fabaceae Solanaceae
Lesson: Frog Anatomy
Which of the following characteristics is incorrect with respect to cockroach?
Lesson: Anatomy Flowering Plants
Identify the incorrect statement.
Lesson: Morphology Flowering Plants
Lesson: Morphology Root Stem
The roots that originate from the base of the stem are :
Lesson: Morphology Flowering Plants
The ovary is half inferior in :
Exam traps and common mistakes in this unit
Lesson: Anatomy Dicot Monocot
Category: Similar Terms
Dicot stem: vascular bundles in ring, conjoint, OPEN (cambium present), endarch. Monocot: scattered, CLOSED (no cambium), endarch.
When it triggers
Question shows TS or asks bundle arrangement.
How to avoid
Ring + cambium = dicot (open); scattered + no cambium = monocot (closed).
Lesson: Animal Tissues
Category: Similar Terms
Squamous (alveoli, blood vessel lining), cuboidal (kidney tubules), columnar (intestine), ciliated (trachea/bronchi), glandular (sweat).
When it triggers
Question gives location and asks tissue type or vice versa.
How to avoid
Map: shape → function — squamous = thin diffusion; columnar = absorption; ciliated = movement.
Lesson: Morphology Flowering Plants
Category: Similar Terms
Marginal (peas), axile (china rose, lemon), parietal (mustard), free central (Dianthus), basal (sunflower).
When it triggers
Question gives plant family/example and asks placentation.
How to avoid
Memorise per family: Solanaceae axile; Brassicaceae parietal; Fabaceae marginal.
Lesson: Morphology Fruit Seed
Category: Similar Terms
Students mix up which named seeds keep endosperm at maturity.
When it triggers
A question lists castor, bean, gram, pea and asks which retain endosperm in the mature seed.
How to avoid
Castor is endospermic (endosperm formed by double fertilisation persists as food-storing tissue); bean, gram and pea are non-endospermous (no endosperm in mature seed).
Lesson: Morphology Fruit Seed
Category: Similar Terms
Students apply dicot seed terms (testa/tegmen, hilum, micropyle) to monocot seed structures, or swap scutellum with coleoptile/coleorhiza function.
When it triggers
A monocot seed diagram is labelled and options mix in dicot-seed terminology or swap coleoptile/coleorhiza.
How to avoid
In a monocot seed the cotyledon is the shield-shaped scutellum; the plumule is enclosed in the coleoptile and the radicle in the coleorhiza; the seed coat is fused with the fruit wall, unlike the free testa/tegmen of a dicot seed.
Lesson: Morphology Leaf Inflorescence
Category: Similar Terms
Students judge simple/compound leaves by leaflet appearance rather than whether the incision reaches the midrib and whether a bud is present.
When it triggers
A leaf image with deep lamina incisions is presented and the option set includes both simple and compound.
How to avoid
A leaf is compound only when incisions reach the midrib, breaking it into leaflets; a bud is present in the axil of the petiole in both types but never in the axil of a leaflet.
Lesson: Morphology Leaf Inflorescence
Category: Similar Terms
Students confuse acropetal (racemose) with basipetal (cymose) flower-opening order and which axis keeps growing.
When it triggers
A question gives an inflorescence diagram and asks whether flower opening is acropetal or basipetal, or which type has unlimited growth.
How to avoid
Racemose: main axis keeps growing (unlimited), flowers in acropetal succession. Cymose: main axis terminates in a flower (limited growth), flowers in basipetal order.
Lesson: Morphology Root Stem
Category: Similar Terms
Students swap which root system arises from the radicle and which from the stem base.
When it triggers
A question asks which root system develops from the primary root vs which replaces it and originates from the base of the stem.
How to avoid
Tap root system is the primary root and its branches (dicots, e.g. mustard); fibrous root system arises from the base of the stem after the primary root is replaced (monocots, e.g. wheat).
Lesson: Morphology Root Stem
Category: Overthinking
Students misorder the root cap, meristematic, elongation and maturation zones or misplace root hairs.
When it triggers
A question asks which zone lies proximal/distal to another, or where root hairs form.
How to avoid
Order from apex outward is: root cap, region of meristematic activity, region of elongation, region of maturation; root hairs arise from epidermal cells of the maturation region.
Lesson: Anatomy Flowering Plants
Root cause: term confusion
Correction
Apical: tips of root + shoot. Intercalary: at internodes (e.g., grass leaf base — explains regrowth after mowing). Lateral: vascular and cork cambium.
Lesson: Animal Tissues
Root cause: term confusion
Correction
Intestinal lining = simple columnar (with microvilli). Squamous = alveoli, blood vessels (for diffusion). Cuboidal = renal tubules.
Lesson: Morphology Flowering Plants
Root cause: term confusion
Correction
Valvate: edges touch (Calotropis). Twisted: one edge overlaps next (China rose). Imbricate: irregular overlap (Cassia). Vexillary: papilionaceous (pea — flag-like standard).
Lesson: Morphology Fruit Seed
Root cause: concept gap
Correction
In mango: thin outer epicarp, middle fleshy edible mesocarp, inner stony hard endocarp. In coconut, also a drupe, the mesocarp is fibrous, not fleshy.
Wrong option pattern
calling coconut mesocarp fleshy/edible like mango's
Lesson: Morphology Fruit Seed
Root cause: concept gap
Correction
A parthenocarpic fruit is formed when the fruit develops without fertilisation of the ovary; the ovary still matures into the fruit, just without prior fertilisation.
Wrong option pattern
equating parthenocarpy with 'no fruit forms' or with seed-bearing fruit
Lesson: Morphology Leaf Inflorescence
Root cause: term confusion
Correction
Stipules are two lateral small leaf-like structures the leaf may bear at its base; the pulvinus is the swollen leaf base seen in some leguminous plants, a separate feature.
Wrong option pattern
calling the pulvinus a type of stipule or vice versa
Lesson: Morphology Leaf Inflorescence
Root cause: concept gap
Correction
Pinnately compound: leaflets on a common axis, the rachis (e.g. neem). Palmately compound: leaflets attached at a common point at the tip of the petiole (e.g. silk cotton).
Wrong option pattern
matching silk cotton to pinnate or neem to palmate by shape alone
Lesson: Morphology Root Stem
Root cause: term confusion
Correction
Adventitious roots specifically arise from plant parts other than the radicle, as in grass, Monstera and the banyan tree; roots from the radicle belong to the tap or fibrous system.
Wrong option pattern
labelling a radicle-derived lateral root as adventitious
NEET question patterns in this unit
Unit-wide
Plant + animal morphology and anatomy: tissues, families, organ systems
Common distractors
similar term confusion
Biology relies on precise terminology; close terms tempt selection.
Questions about this unit
- What does Structural Organisation in Animals and Plants cover for NEET Biology?
- 9 lessons: Anatomy Dicot Monocot, Anatomy Flowering Plants, Animal Tissues, Families Fabaceae Solanaceae, Frog Anatomy, Morphology Flowering Plants, Morphology Fruit Seed, Morphology Leaf Inflorescence and Morphology Root Stem.
- How often has Structural Organisation in Animals and Plants come up in NEET past papers?
- Our set of verified past papers has 49 questions from this unit, from NEET 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. Each is answered against the official NTA key.
- Is the Structural Organisation in Animals and Plants material free?
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