Bioinformatics(General Knowledge > General Science ) Questions and answers for exam Preparation

BIOINFORMATICS MCQs

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Question 1. International effort to identify all the approx 30,000 genes in the human DNA

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Answer: Option D. -> Human Genome Project

Question 2. Science of managing and analyzing biological data using advanced computers

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Answer: Option A. -> Bioinformatics

Question 3. Fragments of DNA have been extracted from the remnants of extinct woolly mammoths, amplified, and sequenced

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Answer: Option A. -> understand the evolutionary relationships among members of related species.

Question 4. Study of genes and their function

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Answer: Option C. -> Genomics

Question 5. A technique that places a gene into a cell to correct a hereditary disease or to improve the genome

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Answer: Option D. -> gene therapy

Question 6. The study of all of an organism's proteins, including its identity, structure, interaction, and abundance

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Answer: Option A. -> proteomics

Question 7. It is the transfer of genetic material for the purpose of treating human disease

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Answer: Option B. -> gene therapy

Question 8. Which of the following would be an example of gene therapy technology?

development of a nasal spray that contains copies of the normal gene that is defective in person with cystic fibrosis
cutting DNA into fragments with restriction enzymes
modifying E. coli to produce indigo dye for coloring denim blue jeans
separation DNA fragments using gel electrophoresis

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Answer: Option A. -> development of a nasal spray that contains copies of the normal gene that is defective in person with cystic fibrosis

Question 9. Which of the following does not describe local alignment?

A local alignment aligns a substring of the query sequence to a substring of the target sequence
A local alignment is defined by maximizing the alignment score, so that deleting a column from either end would reduce the score, and adding further columns at either end would also reduce the score
Local alignments have terminal gaps
The substrings to be examined may be all of one or both sequences; if all of both are included then the local alignment is also global

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Answer: Option C. -> Local alignments have terminal gaps

Question 10. Which of the following does not describe BLOSUM matrices?