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| Q1 ⇒ Why the bacterium Treponema pallidum is difficult to culture? Because it lacks the genes needed for TCA cycle and oxidative phosphorylation [other wrong options] [Discuss in forum] |
| Q2 ⇒ Which of the following organisms has the smallest genome? M. genitalium [other wrong options] [Discuss in forum] |
| Q3 ⇒ The physical nature of genomes is studied under structural genomics [other wrong options] [Discuss in forum] |
| Q4 ⇒ Which of the following is the study of the molecular organization of genomes, their information content and the gene products they encode? Genomics [other wrong options] [Discuss in forum] |
| Q5 ⇒ Proteomics is the study of the entire collection of proteins expressed by an organism [other wrong options] [Discuss in forum] |
| Q6 ⇒ The flow of genetic material in microbial cells usually takes place from DNA through RNA to proteins [other wrong options] [Discuss in forum] |
| Q7 ⇒ Why Deinococcus radiodurans is able to survive massive exposure to radiation? Because it has many copies of genes encoding DNA repair [other wrong options] [Discuss in forum] |
| Q8 ⇒ Which of the following is used for determining the location of specific genes within the genome? Annotation [other wrong options] [Discuss in forum] |
| Q9 ⇒ The species of bacteria, which possesses 250 genes for lipid biosynthesis is M. tuberculosis [other wrong options] [Discuss in forum] |
| Q10 ⇒ The word, used for the small solid supports onto which are spotted hundreds of thousands of tiny drops of DNA that can be used to screen gene expression, is DNA microarrays [other wrong options] [Discuss in forum] |
| Q11 ⇒ What is the range of minimum set of genes required for life? 250-350 genes [other wrong options] [Discuss in forum] |
| Q12 ⇒ Studies of similarities and differences among the genomes of multiple organisms is carried out in comparative genomics [other wrong options] [Discuss in forum] |
| Q13 ⇒ Which of the following theory is supported by the genomic sequence of the obligate intracellular parasite Rickettsia prowazekii ? Mitochondria have evolved from endosymbiotic bacteria [other wrong options] [Discuss in forum] |
| Q14 ⇒ Which type of genomics studies the transcripts and proteins expressed by a genome? Functional genomics [other wrong options] [Discuss in forum] |
| Q15 ⇒ In the time since E. coli and Salmonella diverged evolutionarily E, coli has lost approximately 50% of its genome [other wrong options] [Discuss in forum] |
| Q16 ⇒ Which of the following is concerned with the management and analysis of biological data using computers? Bioinformatics [other wrong options] [Discuss in forum] |