NEET UG 2024 · Botany · Question 147
NEET 2024 Botany, question 147
Question 147 of the NEET 2024 paper (code T2) is a Botany question from Molecular Basis of Inheritance. Its idea, Polymerase Directionality, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 2.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q147 · Botany
Which of the following statement is correct regarding the process of replication in ?
- 1The DNA dependent DNA polymerase catalyses polymerization in 5'3' as well as 3'5' direction.
- 2The DNA dependent DNA polymerase catalyses polymerization in 5'3' direction.Official answer
- 3The DNA dependent DNA polymerase catalyses polymerization in one direction that is 3'5'.
- 4The DNA dependent RNA polymerase catalyses polymerization in one direction, that is 5'3'.
Official answer: option 2 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
The only question on Polymerase Directionality
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
Polymerase Directionality: every question and how it was framed
The chapter
Molecular Basis of Inheritance in ten years of NEET
61 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 10 of 10 papers, about 5.8 a paper. DNA Replication alone had 5.