Bioinformatics MCQ Questions and Answers for Practice

1. The first bioinformatics database was created by

1. Richard Durbin
2. Dayhoff
3. Michael j.Dunn
4. Pearson

2. .............are the extentions of bucky balls.

1. Geodesic domes
2. Hexagons
3. Carbon nanotubes
4. AFM and STM

3. 1 meter = ..................nm.

1. 10⁹
2. 10^-9
3. 1010
4. 10^-10

4. 1 mm = ............nm

1. 10⁶
2. 10^-6
3. 107
4. 10^-7

5. 1 nanometre = ...........cm.

1. 10^-9
2. 10^-8
3. 10^-7
4. 10^-6

6. 20 micron = ..........nm

1. 20 x 10^-9
2. 20 x 109
3. 200
4. 20000

7. A bucky ball is a molecule consisting of ..........carbon atoms

1. 50
2. 60
3. 75
4. 100

8. A compound that has desirable properties to become a drug is called

1. lead
2. find
3. fit drug
4. fit compound

9. An example of Homology & similarity tool?

1. PROSPECT
2. EMBOSS
3. RASMOL
4. BLAST

10. Analysing or comparing entire genome of species

1. Bioinformatics
2. Genomics
3. Proteomics
4. Pharmacogenomics

11. Application of bioinformatics include

1. data storage and management
2. drug designing
3. understand relationships between organisms
4. all of the above

12. BLAST programme is used in

1. DNA sequencing
2. Amino acid sequencing
3. DNA bar coding
4. Bioinformatics

13. BLOSUM matrices are used for

1. Multiple sequence alignment
2. Pair wise sequence alignment
3. Phylogenetic analysis
4. All of the above

14. Characterizing molecular component is

1. Genomics
2. Cheminformatics
3. Proteomics
4. Bioinformatics

15. Deposition of cDNA into inert structure is

1. DNA finingerprinting
2. DNA polymerase
3. DNA probes
4. DNA microarrays