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This section includes 15 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Bioinformatics knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
1. |
The most detailed experimental information about protein-protein interactions comes from three-dimensional structures. |
A. | True |
B. | False |
Answer» B. False | |
2. |
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 |
Answer» B. False | |
3. |
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 |
Answer» B. False | |
4. |
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 |
Answer» B. False | |
5. |
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 |
Answer» B. False | |
6. |
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 |
Answer» B. False | |
7. |
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. | |
8. |
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 | |
9. |
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. | |
10. |
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 |
Answer» B. False | |
11. |
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 |
Answer» B. False | |
12. |
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 |
Answer» C. | |
13. |
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 |
Answer» B. False | |
14. |
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 | |
15. |
Experimentation is most desirable over computational methods by every means. |
A. | True |
B. | False |
Answer» C. | |