Explore topic-wise MCQs in Bioinformatics.

This section includes 16 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Bioinformatics knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.

1.

Because a protein-encoding gene is composed of nucleotides in triplets as codons, more effective Markov models are built in sets of three nucleotides, describing nonrandom distributions of trimers or hexamers, and so on.

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
2.

The use of Markov models in gene finding exploits the fact that oligonucleotide distributions in the coding regions are different from those for the noncoding regions.

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
3.

Which of the following is a wrong statement regarding Gene Prediction Using Markov Models and Hidden Markov Models?

A. Markov models and HMMs can be very helpful in providing finer statistical description of a gene
B. A Markov model describes the probability of the distribution of nucleotides in a DNA sequence
C. In a Markov model the conditional probability of a particular sequence position depends on k alternate positions
D. A zero-order Markov model assumes each base occurs independently with a given probability
Answer» D. A zero-order Markov model assumes each base occurs independently with a given probability
4.

The conventional determination of open reading methods identify only typical genes and tend to miss atypical genes in which the rule of codon bias is not strictly followed.

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
5.

WHICH_OF_THE_FOLLOWING_IS_A_WRONG_STATEMENT_REGARDING_GENE_PREDICTION_USING_MARKOV_MODELS_AND_HIDDEN_MARKOV_MODELS??$

A. Markov models and HMMs can be very helpful in providing finer statistical description of a gene
B. A Markov model describes the probability of the distribution of nucleotides in a DNA sequence
C. In a Markov model the conditional probability of a particular sequence position depends on k alternate positions
D. A zero-order Markov model assumes each base occurs independently with a given probability
Answer» D. A zero-order Markov model assumes each base occurs independently with a given probability
6.

Because a protein-encoding gene is composed of nucleotides in triplets as codons, more effective Markov models are built in sets of three nucleotides, describing nonrandom distributions of trimers or hexamers, and so on.$

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
7.

The use of Markov models in gene finding exploits the fact that oligonucleotide distributions in the coding regions are different from those for the noncoding regions.$

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
8.

The conventional determination of open reading methods identify only typical genes and tend to miss atypical genes in which the rule of codon bias is not strictly followed?

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
9.

Which of the following is a wrong statement regarding TESTCODE method?

A. This is based on the nucleotide composition of the third position of a codon
B. In practice, because genes can be in any of the six frames, the statistical patterns are computed for all possible frames
C. It is implemented in the commercial GCG package
D. It exploits the fact that the third codon nucleotides in a coding region fails to repeat themselves
Answer» E.
10.

The putative ORF can be translated into a protein sequence, which is then used to search against a protein database.

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
11.

Which of the following is a wrong statement regarding the conventional determination of open reading frames?

A. Without the use of specialized programs, prokaryotic gene identification can rely on manual determination of ORFs and major signals related to prokaryotic genes
B. Prokaryotic DNA is first subject to conceptual translation in all six possible frames, two frames forward and four frames reverse
C. A stop codon occurs in about every twenty codons by chance in a noncoding region
D. Prokaryotic DNA is first subject to conceptual translation in all six possible frames, three frames forward and three frames reverse
Answer» C. A stop codon occurs in about every twenty codons by chance in a noncoding region
12.

There are ____ possible stop codons, identification of which is straightforward.

A. five
B. two
C. ten
D. three
Answer» E.
13.

Shine-Delgarno sequence, which is a stretch of purine-rich sequence complementary to 16S rRNA in the ribosome.

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
14.

The presence of these codons at The beginning of the frame _____ give a clear indication of the translation initiation site.

A. always
B. does not necessarily
C. does not
D. never
Answer» C. does not
15.

In bacteria, the majority of genes have a start codon ATG (orAUG in mRNA; because prediction is done at the DNA level, T is used in place of U), which codes for methionine.

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
16.

Which of the following is a wrong statement?

A. Prokaryotes include bacteria and Archaea
B. Prokaryotes have relatively large genomes
C. Prokaryotes have relatively small genomes
D. In Prokaryotes, The gene density in the genomes is high, with more than 90% of a genome sequence containing coding sequence
Answer» C. Prokaryotes have relatively small genomes