Multiple Choice Questions

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The largest gene in man is

  • Insulin gene

  • Tumour suppressor gene

  • Beta globin gene of haemoglobin

  • Dystrophin


D.

Dystrophin

The largest known gene in human is the dystrophin gene, which has 79 axons spanning at least 2300 kb. The human dystrophin gene requires 16 hours to be transcribed.


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Select the correct statement

  • Franklin Stahl coined the term ‘‘linkage’’

  • Punnett square was developed by a British scientist

  • Transduction was discovered by S. Altman

  • Spliceosomes take part in translation


Minisatellites or VNTR's are used in

  • DNA fingerprinting

  • Polymerase chain reaction, (PCR)

  • gene therapy

  • Gene mapping


Which has an additional X-chromosome?

  • Turner’s syndrome

  • Klinefelter’s syndrome

  • Super female

  • Down’s syndrome


Select the correct match

  • Alec Jeffreys - Streptococcus pneumoniae

  • Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase - TMV

  • Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod - Lac operon

  • Matthew Meselson and F. Stah - Pisum sativum


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The thermostable enzymes, Taq and Pfu, isolated from thermophilic bacteria are

  • RNA polymerases

  • DNA ligases

  • DNA polymerases

  • Restriction endonucleases


In the lac operon model, lactose molecules function is

  • inducers,which bind with the operator gene

  • Repressors, which bind the the operator gene

  • inducers, which bind the repressor protein

  • corepressore, which bind with the repressor protein


Polyploidy can be induced by the application of

  • Auxin

  • Kinetin

  • Colchicine

  • Ethylene


Herbicide-resistant gene in a plant is

  • Mt

  • Gt

  • Ct

  • Bt


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One of the breeding techniques useful to eliminate harmful recessive genes by selection is

  • Artificial insemination

  • Outbreeding

  • Inbreeding

  • MOET


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