MCQ Bank
In Genomic DNA libraries, the appropriately sized random fragments can be produced by _________
- A) Lysozymes
- B) Polymerases
- C) Ligases
- D) Restriction endonucleases
Major screening strategies involve _______
- A) All of these
- B) Genetic methods
- C) Sequence-dependent screenings
- D) Screening expression libraries
cDNA is sequence which lacks ________ sequences.
- A) introns
- B) untraslated exons
- C) none of these
- D) exons
Genomic DNA library is constructed using _______ cloning vectors.
- A) low capacity
- B) high capacity
- C) low copy number
- D) low copy and capacity
BamHI is an enzymes used in the creation of ______ by using the phage-ʎ vector EMBL3A.
- A) rRNA molecules
- B) Mutated DNA
- C) Protein molecules
- D) Genomic DNA library
The ________ with specific primers could be used to isolate genes directly from genomic DNA
- A) PCR
- B) SNPs
- C) AFLP
- D) RFLP
Synthesis of cDNA from RNA is done using _____
- A) inverse-PCR
- B) reverse-PCR
- C) qPCR
- D) RT-PCR
cDNA library is representative of the ___ population of the derived host
- A) Proteins
- B) DNA & RNA
- C) DNA
- D) RNA
For _____ libraries, the correct orientation can be achieved by self-priming method by adding linker molecule to double stranded cDNA
- A) genome expression
- B) cDNA expression
- C) protein expression
- D) mRNA expression
Researchers prefer to use cDNA rather than mRNA because__________
- A) All of the above
- B) RNAs are inherently less stable
- C) routine amplification is not present
- D) purifying RNA is difficult
It is much more convenient to use ________________, because these have a higher capacity and the efficiency of in vitro packaging.
- A) Bacteriophage-ECol I insertion vectors
- B) Bacteriophage-ʎ deletion vectors
- C) Bacteriophage-ʎ insertion vectors
- D) bacteriophage simple insertion vectors
If DNA library is established using expression vectors, each individual clone can be expressed to yield a _____________
- A) Dipeptide
- B) Nucleotide
- C) Polypeptide
- D) Monopeptide
A great advantage of hybridization for library screening is that it is ______________
- A) Good
- B) Unique
- C) Versatile
- D) Difficult
Functional complementation is also possible in __________________
- A) Transgenic animals and plants
- B) Artificial animals and plants
- C) Transgenic mitochondria
- D) Non-Transgenic animals and plants
Immunochemical screening involves the use of ________________
- A) Antibodies
- B) DNA
- C) PCR
- D) Antigens
To isolate specific clone, PCR is carried out with _____________
- A) universal primers
- B) simple primers
- C) gene-specific primers
- D) special primers
In chromosome jumping, the DNA of interest is identified, cut into fragments with restriction enzymes and ________________
- A) Circularized
- B) Straighten
- C) Breaks down
- D) Elongates
In South-western and north-western blotting screening is carried out without using an antibody, by incubating the membranes with ____________
- A) Radiolabelled single stranded DNA probe
- B) Radiolabelled double stranded RNA probe
- C) Radiolabelled double stranded DNA probe
- D) Unlabelled double stranded DNA probe
The _________________ is the process by which a particular DNA sequence compensates for a missing function in a mutant cell and thus restores the wild type phenotype.
- A) Functional complementation
- B) Non-Functional complementation
- C) Functional analysis
- D) Functional genomics
M13 is a filamentous _________ with single stranded DNA that replicates without killing its host.
- A) bacteriophage
- B) chloroplast
- C) mitochondrial
- D) plasmid