MCQ Bank
_______ 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
The mouse genome is about ____ smaller than the human genome.
- A) 50%
- B) 33%
- C) 14%
- D) 99%
Approximately ____ of mouse genes have a homologue in the human genome.
- A) 99%
- B) 10%
- C) 33%
- D) 50%
Genes can be identified in vitro using ______.
- A) Genomic methods
- B) Genomic selection
- C) Computational methods
- D) Genome sequencing
_____ is a model organism in Animal Biology and Genetics.
- A) Cow
- B) Drosophila
- C) Rat
- D) Mouse
Transcription factors are ________ that bind to the DNA and help to control gene expression.
- A) Proteins
- B) Amino acid
- C) cDNA
- D) RNA
DNA microarray has many applications. All of the following are applications of the technique EXCEPT:
- A) Assessment of gene expression levels
- B) Analysis of protein function
- C) Discovery of new genes
- D) Evaluation of micro RNA levels
In human genome, males mutation rate is _______ as in the female
- A) Four times
- B) Equal
- C) Twice
- D) Three times
Researchers can use the UCSC Genome Browser to find information in the genomes that have been ________.
- A) Deleted
- B) Sequenced
- C) Generated
- D) Removed
The --------------- nucleotide distribution is information is a basis for translation start prediction
- A) Unbiased
- B) Biased
- C) RNA
- D) DNA
For genome assembly try different assemblers as there is no _________.
- A) Libraries
- B) Duplicates
- C) Best assembler
- D) Parameter
ALLPATHS-LG assemblies are not necessarily__________, but instead are presented in the form of a ______.
- A) Linear, graph
- B) Linear, Circle
- C) Graph, Line
- D) Circular, graph
The average number of times any given base in the genome is sequenced is
- A) Coverage
- B) Scaffold
- C) Reads
- D) DNA
If the score if larger than zero, predict it is --------; the higher score, the higher the probability the prediction is true
- A) Receiver/giver
- B) Donor/acceptor
- C)
- D)
The short fragments are compared with each other to discover how they
- A) Read
- B) Form
- C) Overlap
- D) React