Q. No.Which of the following features of genetic code does allow bacteria to produce human insulin by recombinant DNA technology?
1. Genetic code is specific
2. Genetic code is not ambiguous
3. Genetic code is redundant
4. Genetic code is nearly universal
Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) refers to:
1. Novel DNA sequence
2. Genes expressed as RNA
3. Polypeptide expression
4. DNA polymorphism
Under which of the following conditions will there be no change in the reading frame of the following mRNA?
5'AACAGCGGUGCUAUU 3'
| 1. | Deletion of GGU from 7th, 8th and 9th positions |
| 2. | Insertion of G at the 5th position |
| 3. | Deletion of G from the 5th position |
| 4. | Insertion of A and G at the 4th and the 5th positions respectively |
Purines found both in DNA and RNA are:
| 1. | Cytosine and thymine | 2. | Adenine and thymine |
| 3. | Adenine and guanine | 4. | Guanine and cytosine |
Match the following genes of the lac operon with their respective products:
| (a) | i gene | (i) | -galactosidase |
| (b) | Z gene | (ii) | Permease |
| (c) | A gene | (iii) | Repressor |
| (d) | Y gene | (iv) | transacetylase |
Select the correct option
| Options: | (a) | (b) | (c) | (d) |
| 1. | (iii) | (iv) | (i) | (ii) |
| 2. | (i) | (iii) | (ii) | (iv) |
| 3. | (iii) | (i) | (ii) | (iv) |
| 4. | (iii) | (i) | (iv) | (ii) |
Antiparallel strands of a DNA molecule mean that:
| 1. | one strand turns anti-clockwise |
| 2. | the phosphate groups of two DNA strands, at their ends, share the same position |
| 3. | the phosphate groups at the start of two DNA strands are in opposite positions (pole) |
| 4. | one strand turns clockwise |
One gene – one enzyme hypothesis was postulated by:
1. R. Franklin
2. Hershey and Chase
3. A. Garrod
4. Beadle and Tatum
Which antibiotic inhibits the interaction between t-RNA and m-RNA using bacterial protein synthesis?
1. Erythromycin
2. Neomycin
3. Streptomycin
4. Tetracycline
A sequential expression of a set of human genes occurs when a steroid molecule binds to the:
1. transfer RNA
2. messenger RNA
3. DNA sequence
4. ribosome
One gene-one enzyme relationship was established for the first time in:
1. Neurosporacrassa
2. Salmonella typhimurium
3. Escherichia coli
4. Diplococcuspneumonia
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