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Question 61. To increase the specificity of prediction, a unique feature of eukaryotic promoter is employed, which is the presence of CpG islands.

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Answer: Option A. -> True
Answer: (a).True

Question 62. The eukaryotic transcription initiation is less dependent on transcription factors.

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Answer: Option B. -> False
Answer: (b).False

Question 63. Which of the following is incorrect regarding CONPRO?

It is a web-based program that uses a consensus method
It is used to identify promoter elements for human DNA
cDNA does not play a role in prediction
The program uses the information to search the human genome database for the position of the gene

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Answer: Option C. -> cDNA does not play a role in prediction
Answer: (c).cDNA does not play a role in prediction

Question 64. In CONPRO, for each program, the highest score prediction is taken as the promoter in the region.

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Answer: (a).True

Question 65. Which of the following is incorrect regarding Phylogenetic Footprinting–Based Method?

It is possible to obtain promoter sequences for a particular gene through comparative analysis
The conservation from closely related organisms is both at the sequence level and at the level of organization of the elements
The conservation from closely related organisms is most at the sequence level
It has been observed that promoter and regulatory elements from closely related organisms such as human and mouse are highly conserved

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Answer: Option C. -> The conservation from closely related organisms is most at the sequence level
Answer: (c).The conservation from closely related organisms is most at the sequence level

Question 66. Which of the following is untrue about ConSite?

It is a web server that finds putative promoter elements
It includes comparing two orthologous sequences
The program does not accept pre-computed alignment
The program accepts pre-computed alignment

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Answer: Option C. -> The program does not accept pre-computed alignment
Answer: (c).The program does not accept pre-computed alignment

Question 67. A caveat of phylogenetic footprinting is to extract noncoding sequences Upstream of corresponding genes and focus the comparison to this region only, which helps to prevent false positives.

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Answer: Option A. -> True
Answer: (a).True

Question 68. RVISTA uses two orthologous sequences as input and first identifies all putative regulatory motifs based on TRANSFAC matches.

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Answer: Option A. -> True
Answer: (a).True

Question 69. Which of the following is untrue?

MEME is the EM based program only for protein motif discovery
AlignACE is a web-based program using the Gibbs sampling algorithm to find common motifs
AlignACE is optimized for DNA sequence motif extraction
Melina stands for Motif Elucidator In Nucleotide sequence Assembly

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Answer: Option A. -> MEME is the EM based program only for protein motif discovery
Answer: (a).MEME is the EM based program only for protein motif discovery

Question 70. Which of the following is untrue about Bayes Aligner?

Posterior probability values, which are considered estimates of the true alignment, are calculated for each alignment
The method generates a single best alignment
It aligns two sequences using a Bayesian algorithm which is a unique sequence alignment method
It is a web-based footprinting program

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Answer: Option B. -> The method generates a single best alignment
Answer: (b).The method generates a single best alignment