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NEET UG 2025 · Botany · Question 129

NEET 2025 Botany, question 129

Question 129 of the NEET 2025 paper (code 45) is a Botany question from Molecular Basis of Inheritance. Its idea, Post-Transcriptional Mods, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 2.

Updated 2026-10-08

Q129 · Botany

Which of the following are the post-transcriptional events in an eukaryotic cell?

A. Transport of pre-mRNA to cytoplasm prior to splicing.

B. Removal of introns and joining of exons.

C. Addition of methyl group at 5' end of hnRNA.

D. Addition of adenine residues at 3' end of hnRNA.

E. Base pairing of two complementary RNAs.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

  1. 1A, B, C only
  2. 2B, C, D onlyOfficial answer
  3. 3B, C, E only
  4. 4C, D, E only

Official answer: option 2 · NTA final answer key

Same idea

The only question on Post-Transcriptional Mods

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

Post-Transcriptional Mods: 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. Transcription Process alone had 15.

Molecular Basis of Inheritance: questions per paper

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