NEET UG 2023 · Chemistry · Question 58
NEET 2023 Chemistry, question 58
Question 58 of the NEET 2023 paper (code G6) is a Chemistry question from Biomolecules. Its idea, Nucleosides and Nucleotides, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 4.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q58 · Chemistry
Given below are two statements :
Statement I : A unit formed by the attachment of a base to 1' position of sugar is known as nucleoside
Statement II : When nucleoside is linked to phosphorous acid at 5'-position of sugar moiety, we get nucleotide.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below :
- 1Statement I is false but Statement II is true.
- 2Both Statement I and Statement II are true.
- 3Both Statement I and Statement II are false.
- 4Statement I is true but Statement II is false.Official answer
Official answer: option 4 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
The only question on Nucleosides and Nucleotides
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
Nucleosides and Nucleotides: every question and how it was framed
The chapter
Biomolecules in ten years of NEET
14 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 10 of 10 papers, about 1.4 a paper. Biomolecules (Chemistry) alone had 14.