NEET UG 2025 · Botany · Question 163
NEET 2025 Botany, question 163
Question 163 of the NEET 2025 paper (code 45) is a Botany question from Molecular Basis of Inheritance. Its idea, George Gamow's Triplet Code Proposition, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 1.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q163 · Botany
Who proposed that the genetic code for amino acids should be made up of three nucleotides?
- 1George GamowOfficial answer
- 2Francis Crick
- 3Jacque Monod
- 4Franklin Stahl
Official answer: option 1 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
The only question on George Gamow's Triplet Code Proposition
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
George Gamow's Triplet Code Proposition: 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. Genetic Code and Translation alone had 12.