Most-tested concepts
What NEET asks from Genetics and Evolution
Across 25 years of NEET papers, examiners return to these concepts most often — practise the PYQs on each:
Heredity and variation - Mendelian inheritance; deviations from Mendelism (incomplete dominance, co-dominance, multiple alleles and inheritance of blood groups); chromosome theory of inheritance; sex determination; linkage and crossing over; Mendelian disorders and chromosomal disorders in humansMolecular basis of inheritance - DNA and RNA; DNA replication; central dogma; transcription; genetic code; translation; gene expression and regulation; Human Genome Project; DNA fingerprintingEvolution - origin of life; biological evolution and evidences; Darwin's contribution; modern synthetic theory of evolution; mechanism of evolution; Hardy-Weinberg principle; adaptive radiation; human evolution