NEET UG 2026 · Zoology · Question 168
NEET 2026 Zoology, question 168
Question 168 of the NEET 2026 paper (re-exam) is a Zoology question from Biotechnology: Principles and Processes. Its idea, Definition of a Plasmid, was asked only this once in NEET 2017–2026. The NTA final answer key gives option 1.
Updated 2026-10-08
Q168 · Zoology
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Plasmids are autonomously replicating DNA.
Statement II: Plasmids are extrachromosomal DNA.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
- 1Both Statement I and Statement II are correctOfficial answer
- 2Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect
- 3Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect
- 4Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct
Official answer: option 1 · NTA final answer key
Same idea
The only question on Definition of a Plasmid
No other NEET paper from 2017–2026 tested this exact idea.
Definition of a Plasmid: every question and how it was framed
The chapter
Biotechnology: Principles and Processes in ten years of NEET
46 questions from 2017–2026, asked in 10 of 10 papers, about 4.4 a paper. Cloning Vectors alone had 18.