Bioinformatics MCQs Quiz Multiple Choice Questions & Answers

1. The first bioinformatics database was created by

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

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

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

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

1. 10^-10
2. 10⁹
3. 10^-9
4. 1010

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

1. 10^-7
2. 10⁶
3. 10^-6
4. 107

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. An example of Homology & similarity tool?

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

10. Analysing or comparing entire genome of species

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

11. Application of bioinformatics include

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

12. BLAST programme is used in

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

13. BLOSUM matrices are used for

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

14. Characterizing molecular component is

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

15. Deposition of cDNA into inert structure is

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

16. First molecular biology server Expasy in the year?

1. 1994
2. 1991
3. 1992
4. 1993

17. Human genome contains about

1. 5 billion base pairs
2. 2 billion base pairs
3. 3 billion base pairs
4. 4 billion base pairs

18. In a bucky ball, each carbon atom is bound to ...........adjacent carbon atoms.

1. 4
2. 1
3. 2
4. 3

19. invitro in latin means

1. outside the glass
2. within the glass
3. within the lab
4. outside the lab

20. Margaret Dayhoff developed the first protein sequence database called

1. Protein sequence databank
2. SWISS PROT
3. PDB
4. Atlas of protein sequence and structure

21. Nanotechnology, in other words, is

1. Microphysics
2. Carbon engineering
3. Atomic engineering
4. Small technology

22. Phylogenetic relationship can be shown by

1. Data search tool
2. Dendrogram
3. Gene Bank
4. Data retrieving tool

23. PRINTS are software used for

1. Identification of functional domains/motifs of proteins
2. detection of genes from genome sequence
3. detection of tRNA genes
4. prediction of function of a new gene

24. Proteomics is the study of

1. none of these
2. set of proteins
3. set of proteins in a specific region of the cell
4. entire set of expressed proteins in a cell

25. Step wise method for solving problems in computer science is called

1. algorithm
2. flowchart
3. sequential design
4. procedure

26. SWISS PORT is related to

1. Sequence sequence data
2. Portable data
3. Swiss Bank data
4. Sequence data bank

27. SWISSPROT protein sequence database began in

1. 1988
2. 1985
3. 1986
4. 1987

28. The computational methodology that tries to find the best matching between two molecule, a receptor and ligand is called

1. molecule affinity checking
2. molecular matching
3. molecular docking
4. molecular fitting

29. The cut-off limit of human eye to see is ..................nm

1. 10000
2. 10
3. 100
4. 1000

30. The diameter of a bucky ball is about

1. 10 nm
2. 1 Armstrong
3. 100 Armstrong
4. 1 nm

31. The diameter of a bucky ball is about

1. 1000 Armstrong
2. 1 Armstrong
3. 10 Armstrong
4. 100 Armstrong

32. The diameter of fly ash particles is .............µm

1. 100
2. 10-May
3. 20-Oct
4. 20-30

33. The diameter of human hair is ....................m

1. 7.5 x 10-9
2. 75000
3. 75
4. 7.5 x 10^-5

34. The diameter of hydrogen atom is ..............nm.

1. 0.01
2. 10
3. 1
4. 0.1

35. The hardest material found in nature is

1. quartz
2. steel
3. topaz
4. diamond

36. The identification of drugs through genomic study

1. Phrmacogenetics
2. Genomics
3. Cheminformatics
4. Pharmagenomics

37. The most important property of nanomaterials is

1. temperature
2. force
3. friction
4. pressure

38. The size of a quantum dot is .............m.

1. 5 x 10^-11
2. 5
3. 5 x 10^-9
4. 5 x 10^-10

39. The size of E.coli bacteria is .................nm

1. 5
2. 75000
3. 2000
4. 200

40. The tensile strength of a carbon nanotube is ...........times that of steel.

1. 1000
2. 10
3. 25
4. 100

41. The term used to refer something performed on computer or computer simulation

1. insilico
2. dry lab
3. web lab
4. invitro

42. The tool for identification of motifs?

1. BLAST
2. COPIA
3. Patternhunter
4. PROSPECT

43. The width of carbon nanotube is ............nm.

1. 10
2. 1
3. 1.3
4. 1.55

44. There is a plenty of room at the bottom. This was stated by

1. Eric Drexler
2. Issac Newton
3. Albert Einstein
4. Richard Feynman