Short Answer Type

Advertisement

What is ribozyme?


Ribozyme is RNA molecule with catalytic activity and have generated intense interest for their potential to be developed as RNA restriction enzymes. In bacteria the RNA can catalyse the reaction independently of protein.


Advertisement

Multiple Choice Questions

Melting of DNA at an elevated temperature (70°C) is primarily due to the breakdown of

  • phosphodiester bonds

  • glycosidic bonds

  • disulphide bonds

  • hydrogen bonds


Structural element of chromatin is

  • histone

  • acid protein and DNA

  • nuclear matrix

  • nucleosomes


DNA sequences that code for protein are known as

  • introns

  • exons

  • control regions

  • intervening sequences


Out of A-T, G-C pairing, bases of DNA may exist in alternate valency state owing to arrangement called

  • tautomerisational mutation

  • analogue substitution

  • point mutation

  • frameshift mutation


Advertisement

The chemical nature of chromatin is as follows

  • nucleic acids

  • nucleic acid and histone proteins

  • nucleic acids, histone and non-histone proteins

  • nucleic acids and non-histone proteins


A-DNA is

  • left-handed helix with 12 nucleotide pairs per turn

  • right-handed helix with 11 nucleotide pairs per turn

  • right handed helix with 12 nucleotide pairs per turn

  • left-handed helix with 11 nucleotide pairs per tum


Which one of the following triplet codon is a chain termination codon?

  • UGU

  • AAU

  • UUG

  • UAG


Which one of the following triplet codon is known as initiation codon?

  • UUU

  • UAA

  • AUG

  • UGA


Advertisement
<

What will be the codons in mRNA if the DNA codes are ATG - CAG?

  • TAC - GTC

  • UAC - GUC

  • UCA - TUA

  • TCA - GTC


Advertisement