MCQ Bank
How many types of semi conductor chips:
- A) 7
- B) 5
- C) 3
- D) 10
Drosha and Dicer are ____ enzymes.
- A) RNase II
- B) DNase III
- C) DNase II
- D) RNase III
RISC mediates which cellular function:
- A) • Degrades mRNA
- B) • Starts Transcription
- C) • Degrades tRNA
- D) • Helps translation
Assigning identities and functions to sequences within the genome is called ________.
- A) Genome Sequencing
- B) Genomic evaluation
- C) cDNA formation
- D) Genome annotation
Transcription factors bind to specific __________.
- A) cDNA sequences
- B) RNA sequences
- C) Protein sequences
- D) DNA sequences
Mouse and human genomes each contains approximately ______ protein coding genes.
- A) 23000
- B) 10000
- C) 25000
- D) 5000
DNA Microarray technology is widely used for genetic analysis. The technique is basically an evolution of another process known as:
- A) Western blotting
- B) Southern hybridization
- C) Sanger sequencing
- D) Northern hybridization
Microarray technology evolved from ______, where fragmented DNA is attached to a substrate and then probed with a known DNA sequence.
- A) Southern blotting
- B) Northern blotting
- C) Western blotting
- D) Gel electrophoresis
Ensembl core databases store genome _________ information.
- A) Sequence
- B) RFLP
- C) Sequence and annotation
- D) SNPs
Ensembl is a joint project between these 3 organizations.
- A) EMBL, EBI, NCBI
- B) EMBL, EBI, FBI
- C) EMBL, EBI, WTSI
- D) EMBL, EBI, CIA
Mouse genome contains ___ CpG islands than human.
- A) equal
- B) permanent
- C) more
- D) fewer
Privacy and confidentiality of genetic information is a/an __________.
- A) Social and Legal
- B) Historical and Legal
- C) Ethical and Legal
- D) Biological and Legal
Arabidopsis Thaliana genomes has _____ genes and encodes _______ proteins.
- A) 35000, 35000
- B) 27000, 27000
- C) 2700, 3500
- D) 27000, 35000
The Human Genome Project raises complex ____ issues.
- A) Historical
- B) Ethical
- C) Biological
- D) Social
_______ is model plant from genome research.
- A) Convolvulus arvensis
- B) Typha latifolia
- C) Datura stramonium
- D) Arabidopsis Thaliana
Repeated sequences make up at least ______ of the human genome.
- A) 15 %
- B) 90 %
- C) 45 %
- D) 33 %
Approximately 40% of the human genome is same to the ______ genome.
- A) mouse
- B) cow
- C) dog
- D) drosophila
The genomes are so large that useful information is _______ to find.
- A) Easy
- B) Sufficient
- C) Accessible
- D) Hard
Which statement about DNA microarray is TRUE?
- A) The term RNA chipping is also used to describe the technique
- B) The principle of DNA microarray is based on the hybridization between sugar-phosphate backbone of the DNA molecules
- C) DNA microarray allows us to analyze thousands of genes in one experiment
- D) DNA microarray chips may be made of biodegradable plastic
There are several synonyms of DNA microarrays except _________.
- A) DNA arrays
- B) Linear arrays
- C) Gene chips
- D) Gene arrays