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Cell Division

Asked 2 times across 2 UPSC exams over 1 years (2024–2025), peaking in 2025.
2
PYQs
2
Exams
2
Years active
2024–2025
Span
2025
Peak
1/2
Answers
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Key insights

  • Most tested in CAPF — 1 of 2 PYQs
  • Most asked in 2025
  • Recurs across 2 years (2024–2025)

How it travelled across exams

First appearance in each exam — the same idea, reframed.
NDA 2024 CAPF 2025

How the concept evolved

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Rising — more than half its appearances (2 of 2) are since 2016.

Sample questions

You've seen the pattern — here are a few of the actual PYQs.
CAPF2025
The spindle fibre is attached to which of the following specific regions of the chromosomes?
  1. A Kinetochore
  2. B Chromonema
  3. C Telomere
  4. D Centriole
Answer key not yet available (pending official release)
Science & Technology › Biology & Health
NDA2024

Consider the following statements

  1. DNA replication takes place when chromatin is opened up
  2. Chromatin organises itself into rod-shaped chromosomes before cell division
  3. Both prokaryotes and eukaryotes have the same process for cell division

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

  1. A 1 only
  2. B 1 and 2 only ✓
  3. C 1, 2 and 3
  4. D 3 only
✓ Correct answer: (B)
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