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41.

Which one of the following does not follow the central dogma of molecular biology?

  • Pea

  • Mucor

  • Chlamydomonas

  • Chlamydomonas

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42.

Which of the following is used in gene cloning?

  • Nucleoids

  • Lomasomes

  • Mesosomes

  • Mesosomes

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43.

Which of the following is used in gene cloning?

  • Nucleoids

  • Lomasomes

  • Mesosomes

  • Mesosomes

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44.

Which one of the following is now being commercially produced by biotechnological procedures?

  • Nicotine

  • Morphine

  • Quinine

  • Quinine

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45.

In eukaryotic cell transcription, RNA splicing and RNA capping take place inside the

  • ribosomes

  • nucleus

  • dictyosomes

  • dictyosomes

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46.

The lac operon consists of 

  • four regulatory genes only

  • one regulatory gene and three structural genes

  • two regulatory genes and two structural genes

  • two regulatory genes and two structural genes


B.

one regulatory gene and three structural genes

Lac operon is the operon that regulates lactose metabolism in the bacterium Escherichia coli. Its form wast first postulated in 1961 by Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod to explain the control of β- galactosidase synthesis and for this work, they were awarded Nobel Prize. Lac operon system or inducible operon system consists of regulator gene (i) promoter gene (z, y and a), repressor protein and inducer.
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47.

Sickle cell anaemia is

  • an autosomal-linked dominant trait

  • caused by substitution of valine by glutamic acid in the β-globin chain of haemoglobin

  • caused by a change in a base pair of DNA

  • caused by a change in a base pair of DNA

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48.

There is no DNA in 

  • an enucleated ovum

  • mature RBCs

  • a mature spermatozoan

  • a mature spermatozoan

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49.

Study the pedigree chart given below.



what does it show?

  • Inheritance of a sex-linked inborn error of metabolism like phenylketonuria

  • Inheritance of a condition like phenylketonuria as an autosomal recessive trait

  • The pedigree chart is wrong as this is not possible

  • The pedigree chart is wrong as this is not possible

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50.

Which one of the following is the correct matching of three items and their grouping category?

  • Items

    Group

    Malleus, incus, cochlea

    Ear ossicles

  • Items

    Group

    IIium, ischium, pubis

    Coxal bones of pelvic girdle

  • Items

    Group

    Actin, myosin,

    Rhodopsin

    Muscle proteins

  • Items

    Group

    Actin, myosin,

    Rhodopsin

    Muscle proteins

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