NEET UG 2025 · Zoology · Question 116
NEET 2025 Zoology, question 116
Question 116 of the NEET 2025 paper (code 45) is a Zoology question from Biotechnology and its Applications. Its idea, Host Organism for Insulin, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 1.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q116 · Zoology
Which of the following genetically engineered organisms was used by Eli Lilly to prepare human insulin?
- 1BacteriumOfficial answer
- 2Yeast
- 3Virus
- 4Phage
Official answer: option 1 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
The only question on Host Organism for Insulin
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
Host Organism for Insulin: every question and how it was framed
The chapter
Biotechnology and its Applications in ten years of NEET
24 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 9 of 10 papers, about 2.3 a paper. Genetically Engineered Insulin alone had 4.