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This section includes 657 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Testing Subject knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
What is haploid genome size of humans? |
| A. | 2000 mb |
| B. | 9000 mb |
| C. | 3000 mb |
| D. | 200 mb |
| Answer» D. 200 mb | |
| 2. |
In which year project ENCODE began? |
| A. | 2000 |
| B. | 2001 |
| C. | 2002 |
| D. | 2003 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 3. |
In which year was Neanderthal genome sequenced? |
| A. | 2010 |
| B. | 2011 |
| C. | 2012 |
| D. | 2013 |
| Answer» B. 2011 | |
| 4. |
What is scientific name of present-day humans? |
| A. | homo erectus |
| B. | homo sapiens |
| C. | Neanderthals |
| D. | Mus musculus |
| Answer» C. Neanderthals | |
| 5. |
A diploid organism has how many alleles per site? |
| A. | 1 |
| B. | 2 |
| C. | 3 |
| D. | 4 |
| Answer» C. 3 | |
| 6. |
Which of following functions in vertebrates is performed by FOXP2 gene? |
| A. | muscle development |
| B. | vocalization |
| C. | coat color |
| D. | eye color |
| Answer» C. coat color | |
| 7. |
Which of following is scientific name for yeast? |
| A. | drosophila melanogaster |
| B. | pongo pygmaeus |
| C. | saccharomyces cerevisiae |
| D. | Caenorhabditis elegans |
| Answer» D. Caenorhabditis elegans | |
| 8. |
What percentage of DNA in humans are regulatory sequences? |
| A. | 10 |
| B. | 5 |
| C. | 18 |
| D. | 20 |
| Answer» C. 18 | |
| 9. |
What percentage of plant species present today have shown polyploidy in their ancestors? |
| A. | 0.1 |
| B. | 0.05 |
| C. | 0.8 |
| D. | 0.9 |
| Answer» D. 0.9 | |
| 10. |
What is scientific name for corn? |
| A. | Zea mays |
| B. | drosophila melanogaster |
| C. | Mus musculus |
| D. | pongo pygmaeus |
| Answer» B. drosophila melanogaster | |
| 11. |
Genome of E Coli has approximately how many million base pairs? |
| A. | 1.2 |
| B. | 4.6 |
| C. | 4,8 |
| D. | 3.5 |
| Answer» C. 4,8 | |
| 12. |
When did human genome project officially begin? |
| A. | 1990 |
| B. | 2000 |
| C. | 2003 |
| D. | 2010 |
| Answer» B. 2000 | |
| 13. |
What is function of hemoglobin protein? |
| A. | carry oxygen |
| B. | DNA replication |
| C. | muscle development |
| D. | carry carbon dioxide |
| Answer» B. DNA replication | |
| 14. |
Sequences of DNA that can move from one place to another is called |
| A. | gene |
| B. | intron |
| C. | transposable elements |
| D. | moving elements |
| Answer» D. moving elements | |
| 15. |
How many countries participated in human genome project? |
| A. | 5 |
| B. | 6 |
| C. | 7 |
| D. | 8 |
| Answer» C. 7 | |
| 16. |
How many million years ago humans and mice diverged? |
| A. | 65.5 |
| B. | 30 |
| C. | 10 |
| D. | 100 |
| Answer» B. 30 | |
| 17. |
Transposon 'Alu elements' account for how much of total human genome? |
| A. | 0.1 |
| B. | 0.01 |
| C. | 0.03 |
| D. | 0.15 |
| Answer» B. 0.01 | |
| 18. |
Which of following can show 3-dimensional structures of all proteins discovered so far? |
| A. | Uniprot |
| B. | sift |
| C. | blast |
| D. | protein data bank |
| Answer» E. | |
| 19. |
Multiple copies of identical or similar genes clustered together are called |
| A. | multigene family |
| B. | clustered gene |
| C. | polygene |
| D. | gene group |
| Answer» B. clustered gene | |
| 20. |
At least how many genes are present in any multicellular eukaryote? |
| A. | 40000 |
| B. | 50000 |
| C. | 10000 |
| D. | 20000 |
| Answer» B. 50000 | |
| 21. |
Transposable elements make what percentage of total corn genome? |
| A. | 18 |
| B. | 1 |
| C. | 10 |
| D. | 85 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 22. |
Human genome project was completed using which of these sequencing methods? |
| A. | Dideoxy chain termination method |
| B. | next generation sequencing |
| C. | third generation sequencing |
| D. | microarrays |
| Answer» B. next generation sequencing | |
| 23. |
Which of following structures protects chromosomes from joining with other chromosomes? |
| A. | centromeres |
| B. | telomeres |
| C. | chromatin |
| D. | histone |
| Answer» C. chromatin | |
| 24. |
Humans and mice share what percentage of their genes? |
| A. | 5 |
| B. | 13 |
| C. | 30 |
| D. | 85 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 25. |
What is scientific name for mouse? |
| A. | Mus musculus |
| B. | Zea mays |
| C. | drosophila melanogaster |
| D. | pongo pygmaeus |
| Answer» B. Zea mays | |