Bioinformatics MCQs

Bioinformatics MCQs

Try to answer these Bioinformatics MCQs and check your understanding of the Bioinformatics subject. Scroll down and let's begin!

1: _______is the product of transcription, and _______ is the product of translation.

A.   A gene; a protein

B.   A protein; mRNA

C.   MRNA; a protein

D.   A protein; a gene

E.   RNA polymerase; ribosome

2: Exon shuffling occurs during _____.

A.   Splicing of DNA

B.   DNA replication

C.   Meiotic recombination

D.   Translation

3: The rp13 gene of chromosome 17 codes for a protein _____.

A.   Involved in eye development

B.   Involved in the regulation of the cell cycle

C.   Crickets must have more noncoding DNA.

D.   Involved in eye development

4: A knock-out allele is ______.

A.   A mutated form of a gene that does not make a functioning product

B.   Protein

C.   A chromosome-level mutation

D.   Missense mutation

5: In the gal gene system, ________ are cis-acting regulatory elements.

A.   UAS

B.   UK

C.   Us

D.   All of these

6: The product of transcription, and _______ is the product of translation.

A.   A gene; a protein

B.   A protein; mRNA

C.   MRNA; a protein

D.   A protein; a gene

E.   RNA polymerase; ribosome

7: A polycistronic mrna contains multiple ________.

A.   Promoters

B.   Shine-Dalgarno sequences

C.   Kozak sequences

D.   MRNAs

E.   Polypeptide-producing sequences

8: An early step in shotgun sequencing is to _____.

A.   Break genomic DNA at random sites

B.   Map the position of cloned DNA fragments

C.   Randomly select DNA primers and hybridize these to random positions of chromosomes in preparation for sequencing

9: In the metabolic pathway shown in figure 16.2, each step is catalyzed by ________.

A.   One enzyme

B.   Several genes that work together

C.   A series of enzymes

D.   One gene

10: The gene that codes for gastrin is located on the _____ of chromosome 17.

A.   Long arm (q arm)

B.   Short arm (p arm)

C.   Both

D.   None of these

11: A ________ is the final sequence of dna put together from overlapping sequences.

A.   Pairwise-end

B.   Frameup

C.   Contig

D.   Ladder

12: Bioinformatics is sometimes called _____ biology.

A.   Concatenated

B.   Computer-based

C.   Computational

D.   Calculated

13: An inpatient record is typically between ____ in length.

A.   60 and 100 pages

B.   300 and 100 pages

C.   50 and100 pages

D.   10 and 50 pages

14: The asynchronous form of telemedicine uses _____ technology.

A.   Forward-and-retrieve

B.   Access-when-needed

C.   Delayed-access

D.   Store-and-forward

15: Srb and horowitz showed that ______.

A.   Yeast is an excellent model organism for genetic studies

B.   Arginine was synthesized in one step from ammonia and carbon dioxide

C.   Mutations of a single gene resulted in defects in multiple proteins

D.   Mutations of a single gene resulted in defects of one and only one enzyme

16: The stoichiometric relationship of atp synthesis to ______ is referred to as the p/o ratio.

A.   Fermentation

B.   Excretion

C.   Photosynthesis

D.   Respiration

17: The term peptidyl transferase relates to ________.

A.   The sequence of amino acids

B.   Uass function only upstream.

C.   Elongation factors binding to the large ribosomal subunit

D.   Peptide bond formation during protein synthesis

18: Multigene families arise as a result of __________.

A.   Transformation.

B.   RNA splicing.

C.   Protein degradation.

D.   The action of restriction enzymes.