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NEET UG 2021 · Zoology · Question 155

NEET 2021 Zoology, question 155

Question 155 of the NEET 2021 paper (code O1) is a Zoology question from Biotechnology and its Applications. Its idea, Insulin Maturation Process, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 1.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q155 · Zoology

With regard to insulin choose correct options.

(a) C-peptide is not present in mature insulin.

(b) The insulin produced by rDNA technology has C-peptide.

(c) The pro-insulin has C-peptide.

(d) A-peptide and B-peptide of insulin are interconnected by disulphide bridges.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

  1. 1(a), (c) and (d) onlyOfficial answer
  2. 2(a) and (d) only
  3. 3(b) and (d) only
  4. 4(b) and (c) only

Official answer: option 1 · NTA final answer key

Same idea

The only question on Insulin Maturation Process

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

Insulin Maturation Process: 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. Genetically Engineered Insulin alone had 4.

Biotechnology and its Applications: questions per paper

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