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This section includes 63 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Bioinformatics knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
When comparing pairs of genes or sets of genes in different genomes for this purpose, it is not mandatory for the genes to be orthologs. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| C. | May be True or False |
| D. | Can't say |
| Answer» C. May be True or False | |
| 2. |
Conservation of gene order due to operon structure is _______ so interactions of proteins specific to eukaryotes cannot be detected by method of Conservation of gene order. |
| A. | not applicable to archea genomes |
| B. | not applicable to prokaryote genomes |
| C. | applicable to eukaryote genomes |
| D. | not applicable to eukaryote genomes |
| Answer» E. | |
| 3. |
In a quantitative assessment of this method (Conservation of gene order) using the genome of the parasitic organism Mycoplasma genitalium as a benchmark. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| C. | May be True or False |
| D. | Can't say |
| Answer» B. False | |
| 4. |
Interactions between proteins can be predicted computationally by looking for sets of genes that occur as a _______ |
| A. | single gene in at least one genome |
| B. | multiple genes in at least one genome |
| C. | multiple genes in various genomes |
| D. | single gene in various genomes |
| Answer» B. multiple genes in at least one genome | |
| 5. |
Experimentation is most desirable over computational methods by every means. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| C. | May be True or False |
| D. | Can't say |
| Answer» C. May be True or False | |
| 6. |
Across the different types of catalytic families, the position of the two domains with respect to one another varied, but only within a range of about ______ |
| A. | 20° |
| B. | 10° |
| C. | 90° |
| D. | 80° |
| Answer» D. 80° | |
| 7. |
In Multiple conformation rigid-body method, a ligand is assumed to be able to adopt a number (N) of different _______ that are computed _____ the ligand being docked into the receptor. |
| A. | low-energy conformations, after |
| B. | low-energy conformations, prior to |
| C. | high-energy conformations, prior to |
| D. | high-energy conformations, after |
| Answer» C. high-energy conformations, prior to | |
| 8. |
In case of Protein-ligand docking, ______ ligands are often _____ in adapting their shape to fit the receptor binding pocket. |
| A. | small molecule, highly flexible |
| B. | large molecule, highly flexible |
| C. | large molecule, more flexible |
| D. | small molecule, less flexible |
| Answer» B. large molecule, highly flexible | |
| 9. |
Proteins are dynamic entities that undergo _______ |
| A. | only fluctuation of flexible loop regions about equilibrium positions when in solution |
| B. | only limited conformational change of amino acid side-chains when in solution |
| C. | both limited conformational change of amino acid side-chains and fluctuation of flexible loop regions about equilibrium positions when in solution |
| D. | illimitable or total conformational change of amino acid side-chains when in solution |
| Answer» D. illimitable or total conformational change of amino acid side-chains when in solution | |
| 10. |
In the assessment of methods to predict protein-protein interactions, one third of such pairs were found to physically interact, and an additional third to belong to the same metabolic pathway or functional process. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| C. | May be True or False |
| D. | Can't say |
| Answer» B. False | |
| 11. |
An approach for predicting ______ to look for cases across a set of genomes where _____ are part of the same gene in one genome resulted in gene fusion method. |
| A. | gene interactions, only three to four orthologs |
| B. | gene interactions, two orthologs |
| C. | protein interactions, two or more orthologs |
| D. | protein interactions, two orthologs |
| Answer» D. protein interactions, two orthologs | |
| 12. |
Due to the requirement for co-regulation as well as colocalization, the method is mostly limited to certain classes of protein-protein interactions. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| C. | May be True or False |
| D. | Can't say |
| Answer» B. False | |
| 13. |
The disadvantage of Multiple conformation rigid-body method is that the active conformation may be missed as the result of a minor structural difference not considered in the ______ ligand conformations. Where, the N is the number of low-energy conformations. |
| A. | N +1 |
| B. | N |
| C. | N² |
| D. | N/2 |
| Answer» C. N² | |
| 14. |
Oligomers are often obligate complexes meaning that the free-energy cost of dissociation is high and they exist as oligomers under physiological conditions. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| C. | May be True or False |
| D. | Can't say |
| Answer» B. False | |
| 15. |
In Property-based measures, displaying physical properties on the molecular surface of molecules can help to guide molecular docking. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| C. | May be True or False |
| D. | Can't say |
| Answer» B. False | |
| 16. |
Which of the following is untrue about Electrostatic Complementarity? |
| A. | The electrostatic properties of biomolecules play an important role in determining interactions |
| B. | The burial of charged residues at protein-protein/DNA interfaces is thought to be generally net destabilizing with the hydrophobic effect being the primary driving force |
| C. | Charged groups involved in the biomolecular interface are often stabilized by other polar or oppositely charged groups on the interacting molecule |
| D. | Charged groups involved in the biomolecular interface are often stabilized by similar polar or same charged groups on the interacting molecule |
| Answer» E. | |
| 17. |
Which of the following is untrue about Hydrophobicity? |
| A. | The hydrophobic effect plays a dominant role in the folding of proteins |
| B. | Hydrophobic residues aggregate away from contact with water |
| C. | Hydrophobic residues aggregate to form hydrophobic cores with more polar residues |
| D. | Hydrophobic residues form the solvent accessible surface but restrict the solubility of the protein |
| Answer» E. | |
| 18. |
Members of a stable complex are often co-regulated and thus will be detected by the method of Conservation of gene order. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| C. | May be True or False |
| D. | Can't say |
| Answer» B. False | |
| 19. |
The most detailed experimental information about protein-protein interactions comes from three-dimensional structures. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| C. | May be True or False |
| D. | Can't say |
| Answer» B. False | |
| 20. |
Genes that are consistently part of the same operon across different, distantly related genomes are likely to be part of the same protein complex or functional process across all species. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| C. | May be True or False |
| D. | Can't say |
| Answer» B. False | |
| 21. |
In Grid representation, the lowest score represents the best surface complementarity for a given translational scan. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| C. | May be True or False |
| D. | Can't say |
| Answer» C. May be True or False | |
| 22. |
The phylogenetic profile method relies on detection of orthologs (or homologs, in a variation of the method) in a set of genomes. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| C. | May be True or False |
| D. | Can't say |
| Answer» B. False | |
| 23. |
The linkers between the catalytic domain and the Rossmann domain were conserved in each family. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| C. | May be True or False |
| D. | Can't say |
| Answer» B. False | |
| 24. |
The investigation (Aloy and Russel) of domain combinations in multidomain proteins by Bashton and Chothia focuses on two-domain proteins belonging to the Rossmann domain family. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| C. | May be True or False |
| D. | Can't say |
| Answer» B. False | |
| 25. |
Which of the following is true regarding Protein flexibility? |
| A. | Methods have been described for the introduction of side-chain flexibility to both protein-ligand and protein-protein docking |
| B. | Methods have been described for the introduction of side-chain flexibility to protein-ligand docking only |
| C. | The Mean Field principle is rarely used in this |
| D. | Methods have been described for the introduction of side-chain flexibility to protein-protein docking only |
| Answer» B. Methods have been described for the introduction of side-chain flexibility to protein-ligand docking only | |
| 26. |
Domains that are part of a multidomain protein are ______ |
| A. | nethier co-regulated nor colocalized |
| B. | not co-regulated but colocalized |
| C. | co-regulated and but not colocalized |
| D. | co-regulated and colocalized |
| Answer» E. | |
| 27. |
Typical motions of proteins will be primarily treated by a rigid body model for docking. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| C. | May be True or False |
| D. | Can't say |
| Answer» C. May be True or False | |
| 28. |
Structural analyses on small sets of proteins have shown that the domains from a pair of families bind to each other with the same geometry in multi-domain proteins and in transient interactions. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| C. | May be True or False |
| D. | Can't say |
| Answer» B. False | |
| 29. |
In the phylogenetic profile method for predicting protein interaction, presence or absence of orthologous genes is scored across a variety of genomes. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| C. | May be True or False |
| D. | Can't say |
| Answer» B. False | |
| 30. |
Stochastic methods can guarantee reaching a global optimal solution and the methods are computationally costly in comparison to the other methods. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| C. | May be True or False |
| D. | Can't say |
| Answer» C. May be True or False | |
| 31. |
Genetic methods (genetic algorithms and evolutionary programming) store multiple solutions. These solutions form a population of members. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| C. | May be True or False |
| D. | Can't say |
| Answer» B. False | |
| 32. |
In a Monte Carlo simulation the score (or energy) is calculated at each step and compared to the previous step. The probability of accepting the step is given by _________ where ΔE is the difference in energy; kB is Boltzmann’s constant and T the temperature. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| C. | May be True or False |
| D. | Can't say |
| Answer» B. False | |
| 33. |
In Stochastic search methods, they include methods such as Monte Carlo simulation, simulated annealing, Tabu search, genetic algorithms and evolutionary programming. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| C. | May be True or False |
| D. | Can't say |
| Answer» B. False | |
| 34. |
An understanding of the importance of different factors in a particular interaction is important if confidence in the results is required. Which of the following are not those factors? |
| A. | Shape |
| B. | Hydrophobicity |
| C. | Electrostatics |
| D. | pH |
| Answer» E. | |
| 35. |
The ______ is an ongoing community-wide experiment on the comparative evaluation of protein-protein docking for structure prediction. |
| A. | Chronological Assignment of Prediction of Interactions (CAPRI) |
| B. | Chronological Assessment of Prediction of Interactions (CAPRI) |
| C. | Critical Assignment of Prediction of Interactions (CAPRI) |
| D. | Critical Assessment of Prediction of Interactions (CAPRI) |
| Answer» E. | |
| 36. |
There was little degree of success in docking an antibody-antigen complex in the second challenge for the protein-protein docking evaluation. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| C. | May be True or False |
| D. | Can't say |
| Answer» B. False | |
| 37. |
In case of protein-protein docking, the level of success is dependent on the system under study. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| C. | May be True or False |
| D. | Can't say |
| Answer» B. False | |
| 38. |
In a similar way to structure prediction methods models can be evaluated using RMSD to measure the similarity between two molecular complexes. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| C. | May be True or False |
| D. | Can't say |
| Answer» B. False | |
| 39. |
The GRASP and VRLM have been incorporated into the GRASS server. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| C. | May be True or False |
| D. | Can't say |
| Answer» B. False | |
| 40. |
The popular program RasMol can be made to view molecular properties by assigning those properties to the temperature factor column of the sdf file in question only. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| C. | May be True or False |
| D. | Can't say |
| Answer» C. May be True or False | |
| 41. |
Information about shape, hydrophobicity, electrostatics, evolutionary relationships and conformational flexibility is not always available and the search for a universally applicable scoring function as well as an adequate treatment of conformational flexibility is ongoing. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| C. | May be True or False |
| D. | Can't say |
| Answer» B. False | |
| 42. |
Visualization methods are very important in viewing molecular properties on molecules. Of particular note is the rendering of molecular surfaces according to their various properties (that can be expressed numerically). |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| C. | May be True or False |
| D. | Can't say |
| Answer» B. False | |
| 43. |
In practical circumstances there exists an experimental structure of the complex. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| C. | May be True or False |
| D. | Can't say |
| Answer» B. False | |
| 44. |
Which of the following is incorrect about Purification of protein complexes followed by mass spectrometry? |
| A. | Isolating protein complexes from cells allows identification of interactions between ensembles of proteins instead of just pairs |
| B. | Systematic purification of complexes on a large scale is done by tagging hundreds of genes with an epitope |
| C. | UnLike in the yeast-two-hybrid assay, this does not involve chimeric genes |
| D. | Affinity purification based on the epitope will then extract all the proteins attached to the bait protein from cell lysates |
| Answer» D. Affinity purification based on the epitope will then extract all the proteins attached to the bait protein from cell lysates | |
| 45. |
In the Interaction map of domain families, the interactions of one family represent the sum of all the interactions of domains in that family. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| C. | May be True or False |
| D. | Can't say |
| Answer» B. False | |
| 46. |
In protein domain family interaction map, the physical contacts of the domains in different families are represented by the lines between the nodes. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| C. | May be True or False |
| D. | Can't say |
| Answer» B. False | |
| 47. |
In order to understand the geometry of domain combinations, different structures of homologous pairs of domains must be studied. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| C. | May be True or False |
| D. | Can't say |
| Answer» B. False | |
| 48. |
Almost ______ engage in interactions with domains from their own family when one includes oligomeric proteins. |
| A. | one fifith of all known families |
| B. | one fourth of all known families |
| C. | all of all known families |
| D. | half of all known families |
| Answer» E. | |
| 49. |
Most domain families only interact with one or two other families, while a few families are extremely versatile in their interactions and are connected to many families. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| C. | May be True or False |
| D. | Can't say |
| Answer» B. False | |
| 50. |
Which of the following is untrue about Grid Representation? |
| A. | To speed up the matching process the topology of the protein can be simplified from atomic level detail to a series of cubic elements |
| B. | To speed up the matching process discretizing the 3-dimensional space using a grid is done |
| C. | Discretizing allows very fast computer matching using search methods such as Fourier transform |
| D. | Fourier transform is hardly used in computer matching |
| Answer» E. | |