MCQ Bank
Which of the following is the basic requirement of PCR reaction?
- A) All of the given options
- B) Heat-stable DNA polymerase
- C) DNA segment to be amplified
- D) Oligonucleotide primers
The quick quantitative method for measuring antigen by precipitation is _____ .
- A) Solid phase radio immunoassay
- B) Immunodiffusion
- C) ELISA
- D) Fluorescent microscopy
The PCR technique was developed by_________.
- A) Altman
- B) Milstein
- C) Kary Mullis
- D) Kohler
Which of the following is an immunodiffusion test?
- A) All of the given options
- B) Gel diffusion
- C) Ouchterloney technique
- D) Double-diffusion
Reverse transcriptase is responsible for the conversion of ______ into _____.
- A) Proteins, RNA
- B) cDNA, RNA
- C) RNA, cDNA
- D) RNA, Proteins
Which of the following molecule(s) can be detected by ELISA?
- A) Hormones
- B) Antibodies
- C) All of the above
- D) Proteins
Which one of the following is a bacteriophage?
- A) Pox virus
- B) M13
- C) Retrovirus
- D) TMV
The process of binding of primer to the denatured strand is called as____ .
- A) Denaturation
- B) Renaturation
- C) Extension
- D) Annealing
Which one of the following is true regarding Oakley Fulthorpe procedure?
- A) Double diffusion in one dimension
- B) Double diffusion in two dimensions
- C) Single diffusion in two dimension
- D) Single diffusion in one dimension
The genome of bacteriophages can be _____ .
- A) Either DNA or RNA
- B) DNA only
- C) Both DNA and RNA
- D) RNA only
Viruses can be precipitated by using_____ .
- A) DNA inhibitor
- B) Ethanol
- C) Ethyl Ether
- D) Chloroform
Filter having the pore size of ____ µm could remove bacterial contamination from sample
- A) 0.1-1
- B) 0.2-2
- C) 0.3-1.1
- D) 1-10
Which one of the following is an application of Vacuum filtration technique?
- A) Collection of a desired solid
- B) Removal of impurities
- C) Viral size determination
- D) Retention of large viruses
Which one of the following substances is used to determine the type of genome present in viruses?
- A) Ethyl ether
- B) Thymidine kinase
- C) DNA inhibitor
- D) Chloroform
Which one of the following viruses do not produce cytopathic effects?
- A) Hepatitis C virus
- B) Herpes Simplex Virus
- C) Enterovirus
- D) Coxsackievirus
Which of the following is immobilized on the microtiter well in sandwich ELISA?
- A) Detection antibody
- B) Sample
- C) Secondary antibody conjugated to an enzyme
- D) Capture antibody
Thermus aquatics is the source of _________.
- A) DNA Polymerase
- B) Taq polymerase
- C) Vent polymerase
- D) Primase enzyme
Which one of the following viral component assembles first, during bacteriophage assembly inside host cell?
- A) Base plates
- B) Capsid
- C) Envelope
- D) Tail
Primers used for the process of polymerase chain reaction are _________.
- A) Single-stranded DNA oligonucleotide
- B) Single-stranded RNA oligonucleotide
- C) Double-stranded DNA oligonucleotide
- D) Double-stranded RNA oligonucleotide
Denaturation is the process of _________.
- A) Heating above 100°C
- B) Heating between 90 to 98°C
- C) Heating between 40 to 60°C
- D) Heating between 72°C