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Biotechnology Previous Year Questions

Practice Biotechnology previous year questions organised from real papers, with year-wise coverage and clear topic navigation.

4Papers
4Years
117Questions
6Topics

Biotechnology question pattern

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Questions by year

Year-wise coverage for Biotechnology. Each bar uses a separate theme-derived color.

Difficulty distribution

How the classified questions are distributed by difficulty.

Easy 88 75.2%
Medium 28 23.9%
Hard 1 0.9%

Question type distribution

MCQ, numerical, multiple-select and other formats found in these papers.

MCQ 107 91.5%
Numerical Answer Type (NAT) 5 4.3%
Fill in the blanks 5 4.3%

Subject weightage

Top subjects by unique question coverage.

Biotechnology
117 Qs

Most asked topics

Top topics across the included previous year papers.

Fundamentals of Biological Engineering
37 Qs
Recombinant DNA technology and Other Tools in Biotechnology
23 Qs
Engineering Mathematics
21 Qs
Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology
16 Qs
General Biology
16 Qs
Plant, Animal and Microbial Biotechnology
4 Qs

Subtopic coverage

Top subtopics inside this exact selection.

Upstream and Downstream Processing
19 Qs
Bioreaction Engineering
18 Qs
Molecular tools
10 Qs
Molecular Biology
9 Qs
Calculus
9 Qs
Biochemistry
7 Qs
Genetics and Evolutionary Biology
7 Qs
Probability and Statistics
6 Qs
Microbiology
5 Qs
Computational tools
5 Qs
Immunology
4 Qs
Recombinant DNA technology
4 Qs
Linear Algebra
4 Qs
Analytical tools
4 Qs
Plants
4 Qs
Differential Equations
1 Qs
Numerical Methods
1 Qs

Paper coverage

Question coverage for the most populated papers. Every active PYP paper remains listed below.

Biotechnology (BT) 2016
1 Qs
Biotechnology (BT) 2014
1 Qs
Biotechnology (BT) 2013
65 Qs
Biotechnology (BT) 2012
50 Qs

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Fundamentals of Biological Engineering

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37 questions2 papers2 years

Recombinant DNA technology and Other Tools in Biotechnology

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23 questions2 papers2 years

Engineering Mathematics

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21 questions2 papers2 years

Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology

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16 questions3 papers3 years

General Biology

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16 questions3 papers3 years

Plant, Animal and Microbial Biotechnology

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4 questions2 papers2 years

Included previous year papers

Newest papers appear first. Sort by year, question coverage or name.

PaperYear / sessionQuestions in this viewOpen
Biotechnology (BT) 201620161View paper
Biotechnology (BT) 201420141View paper
Biotechnology (BT) 2013201365View paper
Biotechnology (BT) 2012201250View paper

Sample previous year questions

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2013 · Biotechnology · Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology · Molecular Biology
Biotechnology (BT) 2013
Under alkaline conditions, DNA is more stable than RNA because
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2014 · Biotechnology · General Biology · Biochemistry
Biotechnology (BT) 2014
The percentage SIMILARITIES and IDENTITIES, respectively, between the two peptide sequences given below will be _____% and _____%.
Peptide I : Ala-Ala-Arg-Arg-Gln-Trp-Leu-Thr-Phe-Thr-Lys-Ile-Met-Ser-Glu
Peptide II: Ala-Ala-Arg-Glu-Gln-Tyr-Ile-Ser-Phe-Thr-Lys-Ile-Met-Arg-Asp
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2016 · Biotechnology · Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology · Molecular Biology
Biotechnology (BT) 2016
A DNA sequence, 5'-ATGGACGTGCTTCCCAAAAGCATCGGGC-3', is mutated to obtain
P. 5' - ATGGACGTGCTTCaCAAAAGCATCGGGC- 3'
Q. 5' - ATGGACGTGCTTCCCgAAAGCATCGGGC- 3'
R. 5' - ATGGACGTGCTTCC -AAAGCATCGGGC- 3'
S. 5' - ATGGACGTGCTTCCCAAaGCATCGGGC- 3'
T. 5' - ATGGACgAGCTTCCCAAAGCATCGGGC- 3'
[Point mutations are shown in the lower case or ‘-’ within the sequences]
Which of the above mutant sequences DO NOT have frame-shift?
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2012 · Biotechnology · Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology · Molecular Biology
Biotechnology (BT) 2012

In mismatch correction repair, the parental DNA strand is distinguished from the daughter strand by

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2013 · Biotechnology · Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology · Molecular Biology
Biotechnology (BT) 2013

Which one of the following modifications is common to both protein and DNA?

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6
2012 · Biotechnology · Recombinant DNA technology and Other Tools in Biotechnology · Molecular tools
Biotechnology (BT) 2012

The basis for blue-white screening with pUC vectors is

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