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NEET UG 2020 · Zoology · Question 7

NEET 2020 Zoology, question 7

Question 7 of the NEET 2020 paper (code E1) is a Zoology question from Biotechnology: Principles and Processes. Its idea, Exo vs Endonucleases, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 1.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q7 · Zoology

Choose the correct pair from the following :

  1. 1Ligases - Join the two DNA moleculesOfficial answer
  2. 2Polymerases - Break the DNA into fragments
  3. 3Nucleases - Separate the two strands of DNA
  4. 4Exonucleases - Make cuts at specific positions within DNA

Official answer: option 1 · NTA final answer key

Same idea

The only question on Exo vs Endonucleases

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

Exo vs Endonucleases: every question and how it was framed

The chapter

Biotechnology: Principles and Processes in ten years of NEET

46 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 10 of 10 papers, about 4.4 a paper. Restriction Enzymes alone had 22.

Biotechnology: Principles and Processes: questions per paper

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