10/2/2019 Assignment 1 Group 1: SHES 1603 / SIX 1008 Biocomputing [25 marks]

Started on Wednesday, 2 October 2019, 5:04 PM

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Grade 9.60 out of 10.00 (96%)

Question 1
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_______________ is the basic building block of protein.

Select one:
a. Glucose
b. Amino acid  Correct.
c. Triglyceride
d. Water
e. None of the above

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Amino acid

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Question 2
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There are two types of secondary protein structures:  ___________ and ____________. 

Select one:
a. double helix and β-pleated sheet
b. α-helix and β-pleated sheet  correct
c. α-helix and double helix
d. codon and anticodon
e. intron and exon

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: α-helix and β-pleated sheet

Question 3
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The base sequence of nucleotide in DNA is _________________________.

Select one:
a. anti-parallel
b. codon
c. exon
d. complementary  correct
e. semi-conservative

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: complementary

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Question 4
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DNA's triple nucleotide genetic code is called __________. 

Select one:
a. codon  correct
b. intron
c. exon
d. methionine
e. none of the above

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: codon

Question 5
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The structural difference between DNA and RNA is DNA is ________________________.

Select one:
a. single helix
b. double helix  correct
c. complementary
d. denatured
e. homologous

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: double helix

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Question 6
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_________________ consists of a base, phosphate group and ribose.

Select one:
a. DNA
b. RNA  CORRECT
c. ribosome
d. protein
e. lipid

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: RNA

Question 7
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When a protein is heated, it becomes _____________.

Select one:
a. amino acid
b. hydrophilic
c. denatured  correct
d. genome
e. double helix

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: denatured

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Question 8
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_________________________ is the energy that can be converted to work.

Select one:
a. Kinetic energy
b. Entropy
c. Heat
d. Enthalpy
e. Free energy  correct

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Free energy

Question 9
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____________________ is the total genetic material in a cell.

Select one:
a. Genome  correct
b. Transcriptome
c. Proteome
d. Epigenome
e. Metabolome

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Genome

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Question 10
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____________________ molecules like water and ______________ molecules repel water.

Select one:
a. Polar, non-polar
b. Hydrophobic, hydrophilic
c. Hydrophilic, hydrophobic  correct
d. Non-polar, polar

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Hydrophilic, hydrophobic

Question 11
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________________________ is a group of similar proteins with high sequence similarity and are
evolutionarily related.

Select one:
a. Protein superfamily
b.
Orthologous protein

c. Paralogous protein
d. Protein family  correct
e. Xenologous protein

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Protein family

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Question 12
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_______________________________ is a group of proteins that are functionally and structurally related but
show low sequence similarity.

Select one:
a. Protein family
b. Homologous protein
c. Paralogous protein
d. Protein superfamily  correct
e. Orthologous protein

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Protein superfamily

Question 13
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The final matured mRNA after introns have been removed is called __________. 

Select one:
a. codon
b. anticodon
c. exon  correct
d. amino acid
e. transcriptome

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: exon

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Question 14
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A branching diagram showing the evolutionary relationships of nucleotides or proteins is called

__________________________.

Select one:
a. phylogenetic tree  correct
b. neighbor joining
c. maximum parsimony
d. clustering
e. clade

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: phylogenetic tree

Question 15
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_________________ proteins may apply to the relationships of orthologous and paralogous proteins. 

Select one:
a. Xenologous
b. Homolgous  correct
c. Analogous
d. Superfamily
e. Amino acid

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Homolgous

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Question 16
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____________________ proteins evolved by speciation. 

Select one:
a. Orthologous  correct
b. Paralogous
c. Analogous
d. Xenologous
e. Homologous

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Orthologous

Question 17
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____________________ proteins are separated by gene duplication. . 

Select one:
a. Orthologous
b. Paralogous  correct
c. Analogous
d. Xenologous
e. Homologous

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Paralogous

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Question 18
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____________________________ is a computational algorithm that finds the lowest potential energy

surface for a stable conformation of a protein.

Select one:
a. Entropy
b. Enthalpy
c. Energy minimization  correct
d. Free energy
e. Potential energy

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Energy minimization

Question 19
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What is allele?

Select one:
a. DNA
b. Gene  wrong
c. A variant form of a given gene
d. RNA
e. Nucleic acid

Your answer is incorrect.

The correct answer is: A variant form of a given gene

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Question 20
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How many genetic variations can be obtained from all the human homologous chromosomes?

Select one:
a. 462
b. 246
c. 232
d. 223  correct
e. 2346

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: 223

Question 21
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How many types of gametes can be obtained from four homologous chromosomes ?

Select one:
a. 42
b. 24  correct
c. 2x4
d. 4x2
e. 4/2

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: 24

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Question 22
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A male and a female red colour flower (genotype Rr) and tall stem (genotype Tt) cross breed by RrTt
x RrTt, how many combinations can be obtained?

Select one:
a. 4x2
b. 4x4  correct
c. 2x2
d. 24

   e. 44

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: 4x4

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Question 23
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The diagram above ____________________. 

Select one:
a. helped to confirm that sulfur is the genetic material.
b. helped to confirm that phosphorus is the genetic material.
c. helped to confirm that DNA is the genetic material.
correct
d. helped to confirm that virus is the genetic material.
e. helped to confirm that bacterium is the genetic material.

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: helped to confirm that DNA is the genetic material.

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Question 24
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What is the net charge of DNA?

Select one:
a. Positive
b. Negative  correct
c. Neutral
d. Polar
e. Hydrophilic

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Negative

Question 25
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The start codon is ___________  and the stop codon is ____________.

Select one:
a. ATG, TAA, TGA, TAG.  CORRECT
b. ATG, TAA, TCA, TAC.
c. ATC, TAA, TAG, TGA.
d. AAG, TAA, TAG, TCA.
e. ATG, TAA, TGG, TCC.

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: ATG, TAA, TGA, TAG.

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