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NEET UG 2023 · Zoology · Question 172

NEET 2023 Zoology, question 172

Question 172 of the NEET 2023 paper (code G6) is a Zoology question from Biomolecules. Its idea, Polypeptide Chain Terminals, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 1.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q172 · Zoology

Given below are two statements:

Statement I: A protein is imagined as a line, the left end represented by first amino acid (C-terminal) and the right end represented by last amino acid (N-terminal)

Statement II: Adult human haemoglobin, consists of 4 subunits (two subunits of α type and two subunits of β type.)

In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:

  1. 1Statement I is false but Statement II is true.Official answer
  2. 2Both statement I and Statement II are true.
  3. 3Both statement I and Statement II are false.
  4. 4Statement I is true but Statement II is false.

Official answer: option 1 · NTA final answer key

Same idea

The only question on Polypeptide Chain Terminals

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

Polypeptide Chain Terminals: 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.

Biomolecules: questions per paper

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