Bioinformatics Exam Questions with Verified Answers Latest Update 2024
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Bioinformatics Exam Questions with Verified Answers Latest Update 2024
What is Bioinformatics? - Answers Bioinformatics involve the technology that uses computers for storage, retrieval, manipulation, and distribution of information related to biological macromolecules such as DNA, RNA, and protei...
Bioinformatics Exam Questions with Verified Answers Latest Update 2024
What is Bioinformatics? - Answers Bioinformatics involve the technology that uses computers for
storage, retrieval, manipulation, and distribution of information related to biological macromolecules
such as DNA, RNA, and proteins
What are some things that we use bioinformatics for? - Answers searching biological databases,
comparing sequences, looking at protein structures, understand more about human disease, drug
design, forensic DNA analysis, agricultural biotech
Who am I? discovered traits passed from parent to offspring; coined term dominant and recessive. -
Answers Gregor Mendel
Who am I? I created the term "gene" to describe "factors" located on chromosomes; also developed the
chromosomal theory of heredity - Answers Walter Sutton
Who am I? (2 People) demonstrated actions of some genes modify actions of other genes; the first time
gene regulation was demonstrated - Answers Bateson and Punnett
Who am I? Recognized genes are carried on chromosomes: the basis for modern genetics;
demonstrated the existence of sex-linked genes and further explained trait linkage - Answers Thomas
Morgan
Who am I? Mapped location of several fruit fly genes. This was the first genetic map - Answers Alfred
Sturtevant
Who am I? Developed technique of electrophoresis for separating proteins - Answers Arne Tiselius
Who Am I? found that amounts of adenine and thymine and cytosine and guanine in DNA are always
about the same - Answers Edwin Chargaff
These two people preformed x-ray crystallography studies of DNA providing crucial information that led
to the elucidation of the structure of DNA - Answers Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins
these two people proposed the double stranded, helical, complementary, anti parallel model for DNA -
Answers Watson and Crick
Who am I? announced the first complete sequence of a protein, bovine insulin - Answers Frederick
Sanger
Which two people worked out the "central dogma" to explain protein synthesis from DNA to mRNA to
protein - Answers Crick and Gamov
These three people cracked the "genetic code" a sequence of three nucleotide bases (codon)
determining each amino acid - Answers Nirenberg, Mathaei, and Ochoa
, I used restriction enzymes to cut DNA and ligase to paste 2 DNA strands together to form the first
recombinant DNA molecule. Who am I ? - Answers Paul Berg
These two people were the first to successfully transfer DNA from one life form to another; a spliced
viral DNA and a bacterial DNA to create a plasmid with dual antibiotic resistance. Who are we? -
Answers Cohen and Boyer
These three people developed different methods for sequencing DNA independently. Who were they? -
Answers Maxam, Gilbert, Sanger
These two people were the first to fuse antibody-producing B lymphocyte cells with tumor cells that are
immortal to produce the first "hybridoma" Who are we? - Answers Kohler and Milstein
Published experimental details for the Southern Blot technique to identify DNA fragments WHo am I?? -
Answers Edwin Southern
This company successfully produced human insulin using recombinant DNA technology in E. coli. RFLPs
were used to produce different fragment from one person to another. WHo am I? - Answers Genentech
What is an RFLP - Answers restriction fragment length polymorphism
Who invented PCR and what is PCR? - Answers Kary Mullis, Polymerase chain reaction
I developed "genetic fingerprinting", technique of using sequences of DNA for identification. WHO am I?
- Answers Alec Jefferys
This was founded at NIH/NLM in 1988 and its intials are NCBI who am I? - Answers National center for
Biotechnology infromation
This project was launched in 1990 and it was planned to take 15 yrs to complete at the cost of $13
billion. - Answers The Human genome project
This is a fast sequence similarity searching tool introduced by S. Karlin and S.F Altshul - Answers Blast
I came up wth EST or a sequencing method for identifying active genes. WHo am I and what is EST? -
Answers Craig Venter; expressed sequence tags
This was the first genetically modified food to be approved for sale by Calgene in 1994. what was it? -
Answers Flavr Savr Tomato
This was the first completed sequence of a bacterial genome in 1995. - Answers H. influenza
in 1996these two things were completely sequenced. What were they? - Answers Yeast and E coli
Patrick Brown of Stanford University presented this which contained 6116 different gene specific
sequences of the yeast genome. - Answers first gene chip
This was the first sheep cloned from the cell of an adult mammary gland. - Answers Dolly
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