Is Biotechnology Botany or Zoology in NEET?

Zoology, in almost every coaching classification. Both biotechnology chapters — Biotechnology: Principles and Processes, and Biotechnology and Its Applications — are filed under Zoology.

This surprises students, because the famous examples are plants: Bt cotton, Golden Rice, Flavr Savr tomato. But the chapters still sit on the Zoology side. As always, the label does not change your marks — NEET gives one Biology score.

Both chapters are in Class 12 NCERT, in the unit "Biotechnology and Its Applications". Coaching institutes teach genetics, molecular biology, and biotechnology together as one block, and that block is filed under Zoology. So biotechnology follows genetics into Zoology.

The plant examples throw people off, but the core skills — recombinant DNA, PCR, cloning vectors, gene therapy — are the same tools used across the genetics block.

This is one of the highest-yield areas in NEET Biology. The two chapters together give roughly 5 to 6 questions a year — close to 10% of the Biology paper, or 20 to 24 marks.

Biotechnology: Principles and Processes alone is often the single heaviest chapter after Molecular Basis of Inheritance. Do not leave it for the last week.

Read the chapter guides for Biotechnology: Principles and Processes and Biotechnology and Its Applications, then drill them on Practice. Test yourself in a full-length NEET mock test once your accuracy is steady.