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NEET UG 2020 · Botany · Question 67

NEET 2020 Botany, question 67

Question 67 of the NEET 2020 paper (code E1) is a Botany question from Molecular Basis of Inheritance. Its idea, Local Unwinding by RNA Polymerase, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 4.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q67 · Botany

Name the enzyme that facilitates opening of DNA helix during transcription.

  1. 1DNA ligase
  2. 2DNA helicase
  3. 3DNA polymerase
  4. 4RNA polymeraseOfficial answer

Official answer: option 4 · NTA final answer key

Same idea

The only question on Local Unwinding by RNA Polymerase

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

Local Unwinding by RNA Polymerase: 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. Transcription Process alone had 15.

Molecular Basis of Inheritance: questions per paper

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