Multiple Choice Questions

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What is not true for genetic code?

  • A condon in mRNA is read in a non-contiguous fashion

  • It is nearly universal 

  • It is degenerate

  • It is degenerate


A.

A condon in mRNA is read in a non-contiguous fashion

The general features of genetic code are:

(i) The genetic code is written in linear form, using the ribonuclotide bases that compose mRNA molecule as letters.

(ii) Each word of codon consists of three letters, ie, the codon triplet.

(iii) The genetic code inside the cell medium is said to be non-ambiguous.

(iv) The code is degenerate, ie, a given amino acid can be specified by more than one codons.
(v) The codon contains start and stops signals.

(vi) The code is said to be commaless.

(vii) The code is said to be commaless.

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Gel electrophoresis is used for 

  • cutting of DNA into fragments

  • separation of DNA fragments according to their size

  • construction of recombinant DNA by joining with cloning vectors

  • construction of recombinant DNA by joining with cloning vectors

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Whose experiments cracked the DNA  and discovered unequivocally that is genetic code is a triplet?

  • Nirenberg and Mathaei

  • Hershey and Chase

  • Morgan and Sturtevant

  • Morgan and Sturtevant

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Given below is the diagram of a bacteriophage in which one of the options, all the four parts A, B, C and D are correct?


  • A

    B

    C

    D

    Tail fibres

    Head

    Sheath

    Collar

  • A

    B

    C

    D

    Sheath

    Collar

    Head

    Tail fibres

  • A

    B

    C

    D

    Head

    Collar

    Sheath

    Tail fibres

  • A

    B

    C

    D

    Head

    Collar

    Sheath

    Tail fibres

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select the incorrect statement from the following 

  • Linkage is an exception to the principle of independent assortment in heredity

  • galactosemia is an inborn error of metabolism

  • small population size results in a random genetic drift in a population

  • small population size results in a random genetic drift in a population

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Transgenic plants are

  • produced by a somatic embryo in an artificial medium

  • generated by introducing foreign DNA into a cell and regenerating a plant from that cell

  • Produced by protoplast fusion in the artificial medium

  • Produced by protoplast fusion in the artificial medium

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In the DNA molecule

  • the  total amount of purine nucleotides and pyrimidine nucleotides is not always equal

  • there are two strands, which run parallel in the 5' →3' direction

  • the proportion of adenine in relation to thymine varies with organism

  • the proportion of adenine in relation to thymine varies with organism

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Semiconservative replication of DNA was first demonstrated in

  • Drosophila melanogaster

  • Escherichia Coli

  • Streptococcus pneumoniae

  • Streptococcus pneumoniae

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Removal of introns and joining the exons in a defined order in transcription unit is called

  • splicing

  • tailing

  • transformation

  • transformation

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Polymase is formed by

  • several ribosomes attached to a single mRNA

  • many ribosomes attached to a strand of endoplasmic reticulum

  • a ribosome with several subunits

  • a ribosome with several subunits

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