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NEET UG 2022 · Botany · Question 102

NEET 2022 Botany, question 102

Question 102 of the NEET 2022 paper (code R1) is a Botany question from Biotechnology: Principles and Processes. Its idea, Agarose Gel Electrophoresis, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 4.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q102 · Botany

Which one of the following statement is not true regarding gel electrophoresis technique ?

  1. 1Bright orange coloured bands of DNA can be observed in the gel when exposed to UV light.
  2. 2The process of extraction of separated DNA strands from gel is called elution.
  3. 3The separated DNA fragments are stained by using ethidium bromide.
  4. 4The presence of chromogenic substrate gives blue coloured DNA bands on the gel.Official answer

Official answer: option 4 · NTA final answer key

Same idea

The only question on Agarose Gel Electrophoresis

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

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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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