NEET UG 2017 · Botany · Question 104
NEET 2017 Botany, question 104
Question 104 of the NEET 2017 paper (code A) is a Botany question from Molecular Basis of Inheritance. Its idea, Leading/Lagging Strands, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The CBSE official answer key gives option 4.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q104 · Botany
During DNA replication, Okazaki fragments are used to elongate :
- 1The leading strand towards replication fork.
- 2The lagging strand towards replication fork.
- 3The leading strand away from replication fork.
- 4The lagging strand away from the replication fork.Official answer
Official answer: option 4 · CBSE official answer key
Same idea
The only question on Leading/Lagging Strands
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
Leading/Lagging Strands: 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 Replication alone had 5.