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Biotech Test

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Ligases are classified as EC 6 in the EC number classification of enzymes. Which of the following subclasses includes ligases used to form carbon-nitrogen bonds?

  1. EC 6.1

  2. EC 6.2

  3. EC 6.3

  4. EC 6.4

  5. EC 6.5


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

EC 6.3 includes ligases used to form carbon-nitrogen bonds.

Which of the following amino acids are both glucogenic and ketogenic?

  1. Glycine
  2. Phenylalanine
  3. Threonine
  4. Proline
  5. Tryptophan
  1. 1, 2 and 4

  2. 1, 4 and 5

  3. 2, 3 and 4

  4. 2, 3 and 5

  5. 3, 4 and 5


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Phenylalanine, threonine and tryptophan: Glucogenic as well as ketogenic amino acids.

Which of the following amino acids acts as precursor to hormone epinephrine, norepinephrine and dopamine?

  1. Amorphic mutation

  2. Eomorphic mutation

  3. Antimorphic mutations

  4. Proline

  5. Phenylalanine


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

A frameshift mutation is a mutation caused by insertion or deletion of a number of nucleotides that is not evenly divisible by three from a DNA sequence. A nonsense mutation is a point mutation in a sequence of DNA that results in a premature stop codon, or a nonsense codon in the transcribed mRNA, and possibly a truncated, and often non functional protein product. Missense mutations are types of point mutations where a single nucleotide is changed to cause substitution of a different amino acid. A neutral mutation is a mutation that occurs in an amino acid codon that results in the use of a different, but chemically similar, amino acid. Silent mutations are mutations that do not result in a change to the amino acid sequence of a protein, unless the changed amino acid is sufficiently similar to the original.

Which of the following is a pair of signal transduction pathway database?

  1. MANET and Reactome

  2. MetaCyc and Netpath

  3. MANET and Netpath

  4. MetaCyc and Reactome

  5. NetPath and Reactome


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

NetPath is a manually curated resource of human signal transduction pathways. Reactome is a navigable map of human biological pathways, ranging from metabolic processes (metabolic pathways) to hormonal signalling (signal transduction pathways).

Which of the following statements is/are not correct about ‘golden rice’?

  1. It is a rice variety obtained by plant tissue culture.
  2. This variety of rice was developed by Ingo Potricus and Peter Beyer.
  3. The name ‘golden rice’ is given to it because it contains traces of gold.
  4. Golden rice is aimed at curbing vitamin A deficiency.
  1. 1 and 2

  2. 1 and 3

  3. 1 and 4

  4. 2 and 3

  5. 2 and 4


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

This option is correct because golden rice is a rice variety obtained by recombinant DNA technology and the name ‘golden rice’ is given to it because the seeds are golden yellow in colour due to the presence of β–carotene.

Which of the following is a database of rRNA?

  1. piRNABank

  2. lncRNAdb

  3. GtRNAdb

  4. SILVA

  5. Rfam


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

SILVA is a comprehensive on-line resource for quality checked and aligned ribosomal RNA sequence data.

The example(s) of DNA and protein sequence alignment programs is/are:

  1. ClustalW2
  2. FASTA
  3. Melanie
  4. PROSITE
  1. 1 and 2

  2. 1 and 3

  3. 1 and 4

  4. 2 and 3

  5. 2 and 4


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

ClustalW2 is a general purpose multiple sequence alignment program for DNA or proteins. PROSITE is a protein database consisting of entries describing the protein families, domains and functional sites as well as amino acid patterns and profiles in them.

Databases containing protein domain families generated from the SWISS-PROT database by automated sequence comparisons is _________________.

  1. KEGG

  2. Pfam

  3. MUMmer

  4. ProDom

  5. TIGRFAMs


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The ProDom database contains protein domain families generated from the SWISS-PROT database by automated sequence comparisons.

Protein-protein interaction database is/are ____________. A. BioGRID B. STRING C. Reactome D. SignaLink 2.0

  1. 1 and 2

  2. 1 and 3

  3. 1 and 4

  4. 2 and 3

  5. 3 and 4


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This option is correct because the Biological General Repository for Interaction Datasets (BioGRID) is a curated biological database of protein-protein and genetic interactions and STRING is a database of known and predicted protein interactions.

Which of the following terms is not correctly defined?

  1. Microevolution: The changes in allele frequencies that occur over time within a population.

  2. Molecular evolution: The change in the sequence composition of cellular molecules such as DNA, RNA, and proteins over long periods of time.

  3. Habitat fragmentation: The emergence of discontinuities in an organism's preferred environment causing population fragmentation.

  4. Genetic drift: The changes in the frequency of an allele because of linkage with a positively selected allele at another locus.

  5. Population bottleneck: A sharp reduction in size of a population due to environmental random events or human activities.


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Genetic drift is the change in the frequency of an allele in a population due to random sampling. Genetic hitchhiking refers to changes in the frequency of an allele because of linkage with a positively selected allele at another locus.

INSD consists of which among the following databases?

  1. DNA Data Bank of Japan
  2. European Nucleotide Archive
  3. GenBank
  4. PROSITE
  5. VectorBase
  1. 1, 2 and 3

  2. 1, 3 and 5

  3. 2, 3 and 4

  4. 2, 4 and 5

  5. 3, 4 and 5


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC) consists of a joint effort to collect and disseminate databases containing DNA and RNA sequences. It consists of the following databases: DNA Data Bank of Japan (Japan), GenBank (USA) and the European Nucleotide Archive (UK).

The database which gives information about enzymes involved in the synthesis, metabolism and transport of carbohydrates is ___________.

  1. BMCD

  2. BRENDA

  3. CAZy

  4. PRINTS

  5. TRANSFAC


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

CAZy is a database of Carbohydrate-Active enzymes, which contains classification and associated information about enyzmes involved in the synthesis, metabolism and transport of carbohydrates.

Match the column – I (scientists) with column – II (associated with) and select the correct option.

 
Column – I
Column – II
A. Milstein and Kohler 1. Monoclonal antibodies
B. Murashige and Skoog 2. Polymerase Chain Reaction
C. Kary B. Mullis 3. Tissue culture media
  1. A - 1, B - 2, C - 3

  2. A - 1, B - 3, C - 2

  3. A - 2, B - 1, C - 3

  4. A - 2, B - 3, C - 1

  5. A - 3, B - 2, C - 1


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The production of monoclonal antibodies was invented by César Milstein and Georges J. F. Köhler in 1975. Toshio Murashige and Folke K. Skoog developed a plant growth medium (Murashige and Skoog medium) used in the laboratories for cultivation of plant cell culture. PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) is a revolutionary method developed by Kary Mullis in the 1980s.

Match the column – I with column – II and select the correct option.

 
Column – I
Column – II
A. PROSITE 1. University of Geneva
B. PDB 2. Brookhaven National Laboratory
C. OMIM 3. John Hopkins University
  1. A - 1, B - 2, C - 3

  2. A - 1, B - 3, C - 2

  3. A - 2, B - 1, C - 3

  4. A - 2, B - 3, C - 1

  5. A - 3, B - 2, C - 1


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Correct answer. The PROSITE dictionary of sites and patterns in proteins is prepared by Amos Bairoch at the University of Geneva. The X-ray crystallography Protein Data Bank (PDB) is compiled at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) data bank is prepared by Victor Mc Kusick, Claire A. Francomano and Stylianos E. Antonarakis at John Hopkins University.

Match the column – I with column – II and select the correct option.

 
Column – I
Column – II
A. DDBJ 1. Bibliographic database
B. MEDLINE 2. Nucleotide sequence database
C. NatureServe 3. Model organism database
D. WormBase 4. Biodiversity database
  1. A - 4, B - 3, C - 2, D - 1

  2. A - 2, B - 1, C - 3, D - 4

  3. A - 2, B - 1, C - 4, D - 3

  4. A - 3, B - 2, C - 4, D - 1

  5. A - 1, B - 2, C - 3, D - 4


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) is a nucleotide sequence database. It is a biological database that collects DNA sequences. MEDLINE is a bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information which provides bibliographic information for articles from academic journals covering medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and health care. NatureServe is a sophisticated biodiversity database which acts as an authoritative source for information on more thant 70,000 plants, animals, and ecosystems of the United States and Canada. WormBase is an online biological database about the biology and genome of the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans (a nematode) and contains information about other related nematodes.

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