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NEET UG 2020 · Zoology · Question 43

NEET 2020 Zoology, question 43

Question 43 of the NEET 2020 paper (code E1) is a Zoology question from Biotechnology and its Applications. Its idea, Transgenic Plants as Biopesticides, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 1.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q43 · Zoology

Bt cotton variety that was developed by the introduction of toxin gene of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is resistant to :

  1. 1Insect pestsOfficial answer
  2. 2Fungal diseases
  3. 3Plant nematodes
  4. 4Insect predators

Official answer: option 1 · NTA final answer key

Same idea

The only question on Transgenic Plants as Biopesticides

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

Transgenic Plants as Biopesticides: every question and how it was framed

The chapter

Biotechnology and its Applications in ten years of NEET

24 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 9 of 10 papers, about 2.3 a paper. Transgenic Plants alone had 12.

Biotechnology and its Applications: questions per paper

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