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Lakshya NEET (2025)

Botany
DPP: 1
Molecular Basis of Inheritance

Q1 5-methyl uracil is (C) 2 (D) 1

(A) Another name of thymine
Q8 If the length of a DNA molecule is 340 A∘ , then
(B) A purine base
(A) There are 100 nucleotides
(C) A double ring structure
(B) There are 100 base pairs
(D) Both (A) and (C)
(C) There are 100 nitrogenous bases
Q2 5
′
end of a polynucleotide chain contains (D) There are 100 sugar phosphates
(A) Hydroxyl group
Q9 In the polynucleotide chain of DNA, a
(B) Ethyl group
nitrogenous base is linked to the −OH of
(C) Carboxyl group
(A) 2′ C pentose sugar
(D) Phosphate group
(B) 3′ C pentose sugar
Q3 Variable part of DNA molecule is (C) 5′ C pentose sugar
(A) Phosphate (D) 1′ C pentose sugar
(B) Sugar
Q10 Histone proteins are rich in
(C) Nitrogen base
(A) Histidine and Arginine
(D) Both (B) and (C)
(B) Histidne and Lysine
Q4 Nucleotide pairs present in one turn of DNA (C) Histidine, arginine and lysine
helix are (D) Arginine and Lysine
(A) 20 (B) 8
Q11 The 'beads on string' structure which is seen
(C) 10 (D) 9
under EM are
Q5 Who proposed central dogma? (A) Histone octamer
(A) Watson and Crick (B) Nucleosome
(B) Beadle and Tatum (C) Chromatin
(C) Klug (D) Chromatin fibres
(D) Crick
Q12 DNA is acidic due to
Q6 Information flow or central dogma of modern (A) Sugar
biology is (B) Purine
(A) RNA − Proteins − DNA (C) Phosphate group
(B) DNA − Proteins − RNA (D) Pyrimidine
(C) RNA − DNA − Proteins
Q13 Chromatin is chemically made of
(D) DNA − RNA − Proteins
(A) Nucleic acid, histone and non-histone
Q7 Number of hydrogen bonds between A and T proteins
of DNA is (B) Nucleic acid and histone proteins only
(A) 4 (B) 3 (C) Nucleic acid and non-histone proteins only

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(D) Nucleic acid only

Q14 Which is the transcriptionally inactive

chromatin?
(A) Euchromatin
(B) Heterochromatin
(C) Loosely packed chromatin
(D) Both (B) and (C)

Q15 Number of histone molecules in each

nucleosome core is
(A) 14 (B) 12
(C) 10 (D) 8

Q16 Nucleosome is
(A) Intron interrupted DNA
(B) Double helix DNA
(C) Negatively charged DNA wrapped around
positively charged histone octamer
(D) Satellite DNAs

Q17 If the distance between two consecutive base

pairs 0.34 nm and the total number of base
pairs of DNA double helix in a typical
mammalian cell is 6.6× 10
9
bp . Then the
length of the DNA is approximately
(A) 2.5 m
(B) 2.2 m
(C) 2.7 m
(D) 2.0 m

Q18 Which is the transcriptionally active chromatin?

(A) Euchromatin
(B) Heterochromatin
(C) Tightly packed chromatin
(D) Both (B) and (C)

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Answer Key
Q1 (A) Q10 (D)

Q2 (D) Q11 (B)

Q3 (C) Q12 (C)

Q4 (C) Q13 (A)

Q5 (D) Q14 (B)

Q6 (D) Q15 (D)

Q7 (C) Q16 (C)

Q8 (B) Q17 (B)

Q9 (D) Q18 (A)

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