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NEET UG 2018 · Botany · Question 158

NEET 2018 Botany, question 158

Question 158 of the NEET 2018 paper (code AA) is a Botany question from Molecular Basis of Inheritance. Its idea, Structure of the lac Operon, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The CBSE official answer key gives option 1.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q158 · Botany

All of the following are part of an operon except

  1. 1an enhancerOfficial answer
  2. 2structural genes
  3. 3an operator
  4. 4a promoter

Official answer: option 1 · CBSE official answer key

Same idea

The only question on Structure of the lac Operon

No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.

Structure of the lac Operon: 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. Gene Regulation and the lac Operon alone had 7.

Molecular Basis of Inheritance: questions per paper

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