NEET UG 2017 · Botany · Question 166
NEET 2017 Botany, question 166
Question 166 of the NEET 2017 paper (code A) is a Botany question from Cell Cycle and Cell Division. Its idea, Anaphase Promoting Complex (APC), was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The CBSE official answer key gives option 3.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q166 · Botany
Anaphase Promoting Complex (APC) is a protein degradation machinery necessary for proper mitosis of animal cells. If APC is defective in a human cell, which of the following is expected to occur ?
- 1Chromosomes will not condense
- 2Chromosomes will be fragmented
- 3Chromosomes will not segregateOfficial answer
- 4Recombination of chromosome arms will occur
Official answer: option 3 · CBSE official answer key
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The only question on Anaphase Promoting Complex (APC)
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
Anaphase Promoting Complex (APC): every question and how it was framed
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Cell Cycle and Cell Division in ten years of NEET
32 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 10 of 10 papers, about 3.0 a paper. Mitotic Division alone had 21.