MCQ Bank
___________ is a general term that describes the migration and separation of charged particles (ions) under the influence of an electric field.
- A) Hybridization
- B) Electrophoresis
- C) PCR
- D) Spectrophotometer
__________ are tree like super structure that consists of several similar branched DNA units, connected to each other using DNA ligase.
- A) DNA Dendrimers
- B) Probes
- C) Aptamers
- D) DNA peptides
The binding of DNA the complementary DNA or RNA sequence is called___________.
- A) Replication
- B) Transduction
- C) Hybridization
- D) Transcription
Histones are abundant in ____________.
- A) Glutamine, Alanine
- B) Valine, Lysine
- C) Lysine, Arginine
- D) Valine, Proline
The chemical composition of ________ contains elements of DNA and peptides.
- A) Peptide nucleic acid (PNA)
- B) Aptamer
- C) DNA Probe
- D) Amino Acids
_____________ are single stranded DNA or RNA molecules that fold into defined secondary structures and bind to targets with high affinity and specificity.
- A) Probe
- B) Antibody
- C) Antigen
- D) Aptamers
DNA biosensor are also known as _______________.
- A) Conductometric Sensors
- B) Immunosensors
- C) Geno sensors
- D) Galvano sensors
The oxidation of Guanine is _________ dependent.
- A) pH
- B) Temperature
- C) Time
- D) Pressure
A typical molecular beacon probe is ________ nucleotides long.
- A) 15
- B) 35
- C) 10
- D) 25
Aptamers bind to their target by determining the _________ structure.
- A) Quaternary
- B) Primary
- C) Tertiary
- D) Secondary
In _________________ technique, the synthesized DNA probe is typically linked with the group of thiols (SH) or amines (NH2) at the end of 3′ or 5′ to bind covalently to the metal surface or specific functional group introduced to the electrode surface.
- A) Capping
- B) Adsorption
- C) Avidin/ Biotin Interaction
- D) Covalent Bonding
Molecular beacons are designed with having _______ types of sequences.
- A) 4
- B) 2
- C) 6
- D) 7
__________ between protein helix and Phosphate groups of DNA happen during binding of DNA with Histones.
- A) Polar Interactions
- B) Non-Polar interaction
- C) Hydrogen Bonding
- D) Salt Bridge
Each nuclesome is composed of DNA wound 1.65 times around _________ histone proteins.
- A) 4
- B) 6
- C) 10
- D) 8
There is no internal repulsion in DNA-PNA dulpex as compared to DNA DNA duplex, that is due due to the _____________.
- A) Absence of Sugar residues
- B) Absence of Phosphate Groups
- C) Presence of Phosphate Group
- D) Presence of Sugar Residues
Biosensor designed for plant tissues are very helpful in identifying the __________ in plants.
- A) Parts of plants
- B) Age
- C) Growth rate
- D) Nutritional deficiencies
The efficiency of DNA base biosensor could be improved by _________ base electrodes.
- A) Nitrogen/ hydrogen
- B) Sulphur
- C) Carbon/metal
- D) Hydrogen/metal
___________ is a DNA mimic in which the nucleo-bases are linked by an N-(2-aminoethyl) glycine backbone.
- A) Aptamer
- B) DNA Probe
- C) Peptide nucleic acid (PNA)
- D) Amino Acids
Generally, the flow of fluid in a microchip is laminar due to __________ and small distances.
- A) Resistance
- B) Small diameter
- C) Smooth Path
- D) High Speed
_____________ is the ratio of inertial forces to viscous forces.
- A) Shielding Effect
- B) Dissipation factor
- C) Inertia
- D) Reynolds number