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NEET UG 2017 · Botany · Question 100

NEET 2017 Botany, question 100

Question 100 of the NEET 2017 paper (code A) is a Botany question from Molecular Basis of Inheritance. Its idea, Hershey-Chase Experiment, was asked twice, in 2017 and 2023, across NEET 2017–2026. The CBSE official answer key gives option 2.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q100 · Botany

The final proof for DNA as the genetic material came from the experiments of :

  1. 1Griffith
  2. 2Hershey and ChaseOfficial answer
  3. 3Avery, Mcleod and McCarty
  4. 4Hargobind Khorana

Official answer: option 2 · CBSE official answer key

Same idea

Hershey-Chase Experiment, in other papers

NEET asked this idea twice, in 2017 and 2023. The other question below.

  • 2023 Q118Unequivocal proof that DNA is the genetic material was first proposed byOne-line MCQ · Easy

Hershey-Chase Experiment: every question and how it was framed

The chapter

Molecular Basis of Inheritance in ten years of NEET

61 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 10 of 10 papers, about 5.8 a paper. DNA Double Helix alone had 16.

Molecular Basis of Inheritance: questions per paper

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