NEET UG 2017 · Botany · Question 130
NEET 2017 Botany, question 130
Question 130 of the NEET 2017 paper (code A) is a Botany question from Molecular Basis of Inheritance. Its idea, Frameshift Mutations and the Reading Frame, was asked twice, in 2017 and 2019, across NEET 2017–2026. The CBSE official answer key gives option 3.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q130 · Botany
If there are 999 bases in an RNA that codes for a protein with 333 amino acids, and the base at position 901 is deleted such that the length of the RNA becomes 998 bases, how many codons will be altered ?
- 11
- 211
- 333Official answer
- 4333
Official answer: option 3 · CBSE official answer key
Same idea
Frameshift Mutations and the Reading Frame, in other papers
NEET asked this idea twice, in 2017 and 2019. The other question below.
- 2019 Q172Under which of the following conditions will there be no change in the reading frame of following mRNA ? 5′ AACAGCGGUGCUAUU 3′One-line MCQ · Medium
Frameshift Mutations and the Reading Frame: 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. Genetic Code and Translation alone had 12.