NEET UG 2023 · Botany · Question 102
NEET 2023 Botany, question 102
Question 102 of the NEET 2023 paper (code G6) is a Botany question from Biomolecules. Its idea, Cellulose Iodine Test Failure, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 4.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q102 · Botany
Cellulose does not form blue colour with Iodine because
- 1It breakes down when iodine reacts with it.
- 2It is a disaccharide.
- 3It is a helical molecule.
- 4It does not contain complex helices and hence cannot hold iodine molecules.Official answer
Official answer: option 4 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
The only question on Cellulose Iodine Test Failure
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
Cellulose Iodine Test Failure: every question and how it was framed
The chapter
Biomolecules in ten years of NEET
33 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 10 of 10 papers, about 3.1 a paper. Biomolecule Structure alone had 33.