BIF401 Midterm MCQs

SABA ALWI

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Humans have over ________ genes

a. ,000 b. 25,000 c. ,000 d. ,000 2.

The genes may produce ________ different proteins

a. <250,000 b. >25,000 c. >250,000 d. <25,000 3. Modern biological experiments produce data which is stored on ____________. a. Internet b. Computers c. Labs d. None of these 4.

Data is being accumulated at an __________ rate

a. Exponentially increasing b. Double increasing c. Decreasing d. Stable 5. Since genome and ____________ information is publically available, you can process this information after downloading it. a. Proteome b. Evolutionary studies c. System biology d. 6.

Biology easily has _______ years of exciting problems to work

on. a. b. c. d. 1000 e. 7.

“Biology easily has 500 years of exciting problems to work on” is saying of_______?

a. Donald trump b. William Knuth c. Donald knuth d. William Edwin 8. If we observe the growth of gene bank than from 1I982 it comprised _________ base pairs. a. billions b. billions c. millions d. millions 9. By year 2002 growth of gene bank had risen to _______ base pairs. a. billions b. billions c. billions d. billions 10.

Phylogenetic “ tree of life “ basically consisits of following three domains:

a. Bacteria, archae, monera b. Plantae , animilia, fungi c. Bacteria, archae, eucarya d. Eucarya , viruses, protozoa 11.

Bioinformatics can be specifically applied to genomics through?

a. Po st translational modification b. Transcription data c. Genome assembly d. 12.

Bioinformatics can be specifically applied to proteomics through?

a. Protein Sequencing b. Post translational Modifications c. Database Development d. All of above 13.

Bioinformatics can be specifically applied to evolutionary studies through:

a. Evolutionary relationships, Evolutionary distances, Phylogenetics, Tree of life b. Evolutionary relationships, Evolutionary distances c. Evolutionary distances, Phylogenetics, Tree of l ife d. 14.

Bioinformatics techniques have enabled us to generate ______ data and its utilization!

a. Anic b. Onic c. Omic d. Amic 15.

Step by step applications of bioinformatics are expanding from genome level to entire______?

a. Metabolism b. Biosphere c. Biosystem d. Protein level 16.

Bioinformatics helps us to understand the systems from small to big like gene finding to________?

a. Sequence finding b. Location finding c. Function prediction d. 17.

_______ integrate biological data

a. Si mulation b. Model c. Disease prediction d. Both a and c 18.

Simulations help validate testable hypotheses

a. Simulation b. Model c. Disease prediction d. Both a and c 19. Bioinformatics not only organizes, stores and analyzes biological data, but can also validate novel hypotheses a. Genomic data b. Proteomic data c. Biological data d. Phylogenetic data 20.

Recent trends in bioinformatics involve development of personalized therapeutics for_________?

a. Cancer and ulcer b. Obesity and cancer c. Diabetes and obesity d. Cancer and obesity 21.

NGS stands for ______?

a. New generating sequence b. New generation sequencing c. Next generation sequencing d. Next genomic sequence 22.

Massive amount of biological data is in__________?

a. Megabyte files b. Terabyte files