NEET UG 2018 · Botany · Question 161
NEET 2018 Botany, question 161
Question 161 of the NEET 2018 paper (code AA) is a Botany question from Molecular Basis of Inheritance. Its idea, Deriving mRNA from Coding Strand, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The CBSE official answer key gives option 3.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q161 · Botany
AGGTATCGCAT is a sequence from the coding strand of a gene. What will be the corresponding sequence of the transcribed mRNA ?
- 1ACCUAUGCGAU
- 2UGGTUTCGCAT
- 3AGGUAUCGCAUOfficial answer
- 4UCCAUAGCGUA
Official answer: option 3 · CBSE official answer key
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The only question on Deriving mRNA from Coding Strand
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
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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. Transcription Process alone had 15.