Neet Questions Biotechnology Principles And Processes

Students preparing for NEET should pay special attention to Chapter 11 Biotechnology Principles and Processes. To help them out, we have selected 10 questions from past NEET question papers to give them a better understanding of the concepts.

Important NEET Questions on Class 12 Chapter 11: Biotechnology Principles and Processes

1. The Taq polymerase enzyme is obtained from Thermus aquaticus

A. Thermus aquaticus

B. Thiobacillus ferrooxidans

C. Bacillus subtilis

D. Pseudomonas subtilis

Which of the following is an endonuclease? (NEET – 2016)

A. DNase I

B. Hind II

C. Protease

D. RNase Restriction

Which of the following restriction enzymes produce blunt ends? (NEET – 2016)

A. Hind III

B. Xho

C. Eco RV

D. Sal I

4. Which of the following is not a component of downstream processing? (NEET – 2016)

A. Chromatography B. Fermentation C. Formulation D. Extraction

A. Expression: I like to eat apples.

A. Expression: I like to eat apples.

B. Preservation

C. Purification

D. Separation

The joining of a foreign DNA and plasmid cut by the same restriction endonuclease can form a recombinant plasmid, as seen in NEET – 2016.

A. Taq Polymerase

B. Polymerase III

C. Ligase

D. Eco RI

6. DNA fragments separated on an agarose gel can be visualized after staining with Ethidium Bromide (NEET – 2017)

A. Ethidium Bromide

B. Bromophenol Blue

C. acetocarmine

D. Aniline Blue

A gene whose expression helps to identify transformed cells is known as an Oncogene (NEET – 2017)

A. Plasmid

B. Selectable Marker

C. Structural Gene

D. Vector

A single strand of nucleic acid tagged with a radioactive molecule is referred to as a radiolabeled nucleic acid. (NEET – 2012)

A. Plasmid

B. Probe

C. Selectable Marker

D. Vector

The ‘co’ part in Eco RI stands for “common”, referring to the fact that it is a commonly used restriction endonuclease.

A. Coli

B. Colon

C. Cofactor

D. None of the above

10. Agarose extracted from sea weeds finds use in biomedical applications (NEET – 2011)

A. Spectrophotometry

B. Gel Electrophoresis

C. PCR

D. Tissue Culture

Question Answer Key

| 1 | A |

| 2 | B |

| 3 | C |

| 4 | A |

| 5 | C |

| 6 | A |

| 7 | B |

| 8 | B |

| 9 | A |

| 10 | B |

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