BIF401 Midterm Past Papers MCQs

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Q1. Humans have over ________ genes

1. 30,000
2. 25,000
3. 35,000
4. 39,000

Q2. The genes may produce ________ different proteins

1. <250,000
2. >25,000
3. >250,000
4. <25,000

Q3. Modern biological experiments produce data which is stored on ____________.

1. Internet
2. Computers
3. Labs
4. None of these

Q4. Data is being accumulated at an __________ rate

1. Exponentially increasing
2. Double increasing
3. Decreasing
4. Stable

Q5. Since genome and ____________ information is publically available, you can process this information after downloading it.

1. Proteome
2. Evolutionary studies
3. System biology
4. Both b and c

Q6. Biology easily has _______ years of exciting problems to work on.

1. 550
2. 500
3. 450
4. 1000

e. 850

Q7. “Biology easily has 500 years of exciting problems to work on” is saying of_______?

1. Donald trump
2. William Knuth
3. Donald knuth
4. William Edwin

Q8. If we observe the growth of gene bank than from 1I982 it comprised _________ base pairs.

1. 3 billions
2. 2 billions
3. 3 millions
4. 2 millions

Q9. By year 2002 growth of gene bank had risen to _______ base pairs.

1. 25 billions
2. 65 billions
3. 56 billions
4. 52 billions

Q10. Phylogenetic “ tree of life “ basically consisits of following three domains:

1. Bacteria, archae, monera
2. Plantae , animilia, fungi
3. Bacteria, archae, eucarya
4. Eucarya , viruses, protozoa

Q11. Bioinformatics can be specifically applied to genomics through?

1. Post translational modification
2. Transcription data
3. Genome assembly
4. Both b and c

Q12. Bioinformatics can be specifically applied to proteomics through?

1. Protein Sequencing
2. Post-translational Modifications
3. Database Development
4. All of above

Q13. Bioinformatics can be specifically applied to evolutionary studies through:

1. Evolutionary relationships, Evolutionary distances, Phylogenetics, Tree of life
2. Evolutionary relationships, Evolutionary distances
3. Evolutionary distances, Phylogenetics, Tree of life
4. None of above options is right.

Q14. Bioinformatics techniques have enabled us to generate ______ data and its utilization! a. Anic

1. Onic
2. Omic
3. Amic

Q15. Step by step applications of bioinformatics are expanding from genome level to entire______?

1. Metabolism
2. Biosphere
3. Biosystem
4. Protein level

Q16. Bioinformatics helps us to understand the systems from small to big like gene finding to________?

1. Sequence finding
2. Location finding
3. Function prediction
4. Both a and b

Q17. _______ integrate biological data

1. Simulation
2. Model
3. Disease prediction
4. Both a and c

Q18. Simulations help validate testable hypotheses

1. Simulation
2. Model
3. Disease prediction
4. Both a and c

Q19. Bioinformatics not only organizes, stores and analyzes biological data, but can also validate novel hypotheses

1. Genomic data
2. Proteomic data
3. Biological data
4. Phylogenetic data

Q20. Recent trends in bioinformatics involve development of personalized therapeutics for_________?

1. Cancer and ulcer
2. Obesity and cancer
3. Diabetes and obesity
4. Cancer and obesity

Q21. NGS stands for ______?

1. New generating sequence
2. New generation sequencing
3. Next generation sequencing
4. Next genomic sequence

Q22. Massive amount of biological data is in__________?

1. Megabyte files
2. Terabyte files