NEET UG 2023 · Botany · Question 127
NEET 2023 Botany, question 127
Question 127 of the NEET 2023 paper (code G6) is a Botany question from Biotechnology: Principles and Processes. Its idea, Rationale for Gold/Tungsten in Biolistics, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 4.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q127 · Botany
In gene gun method used to introduce alien DNA into host cells, microparticles of ________ metal are used.
- 1Silver
- 2Copper
- 3Zinc
- 4Tungsten or goldOfficial answer
Official answer: option 4 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
The only question on Rationale for Gold/Tungsten in Biolistics
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
Rationale for Gold/Tungsten in Biolistics: 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. Cloning Vectors alone had 18.