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Molecular Basis of Inheritance Practice Sheet

Q1 Two nucleotides in single strand of DNA are (C) Termination

joined by (D) All of the above
(A) Hydrogen bond
Q7 To which of the following end, amino acid
(B) Phosphodiester bond
attached to the tRNA.
(C) Glycosidic bond
(A) 5' - end (B) 3' - end
(D) All of the above
(C) anticodon site (D) D loop
Q2 Amount of guanine is 20% in a double standard
Q8 Which of the following is incorrect about
DNA then amount of thymine will be
heterochromatin?
(A) 40% (B) 30%
(A) It is densely packed
(C) 60% (D) 50%
(B) It stains dark
Q3 Which of the following is incorrect about (C) It is transcriptionally active
polynucleotide chain of DNA? (D) All of the above
(A) Free phosphate group is present at 5 end of
′

Q9 During human genome project the last human

sugar
chromosome to be completely sequenced was
(B) Free OH group is present at 3 ' end of sugar
(A) Chromosome 1 (B) Chromosome 11
(C) Backbone is formed by sugar and
(C) Chromosome 21 (D) Chromosome X
phosphate
(D) Amount of adenine is always equal to Q10 The process of removing of introns and joining
amount of cytosine the exons in a defined order is called
(A) tailing (B) transformation
Q4 First identification of DNA was done by
(C) capping (D) splicing
(A) Watson and Crick
(B) Hershey and Chase Q11 Which of the following is the start codon?
(C) Frederick Griffith (A) UAA (B) UAG
(D) Friedrich Meischer (C) AUG (D) UGA

Q5 Electric charge on DNA and histones are; Q12 Lac operon in E.coli switch on when
(A) both positive. (A) lactose is present and it binds to the lac
(B) both negative. repressor
(C) negative and positive, respectively. (B) repressor binds to operator
(D) zero. (C) RNA polymerase binds to the repressor
(D) lactose is present and it binds to RNA
Q6 In which step/steps in transcription, RNA
polymerase
polymerase can catalyse without any
association with factors Q13 Which one is incorrect with respect to salient
(A) Initiation features of human genome?
(B) Elongation (A)

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Total number of genes is approximately Q20 Sequencing of DNA of non-human organisms

30,000 can help solving challenges in
(B) More than 2% of genome codes for proteins (A) Health care
(C) Repeated sequence form major part of (B) Energy production
human genome (C) Bioremediation
(D) SNPS occupy about 1.4 million locations (D) All of these

Q14 In ϕ × 174 bacteriophage 5386 nucleotides are Q21 Find the incorrect entry from the box
found. Find the number of glycosidic bonds and (A) Organism - ϕ × 174 ; Genetic material - ds
phosphodiester bonds in this DNA? DNA; Number of bp - 5386 bp
(A) 5386,5385 (B) 5386,5386 (B) Organism - λ -phage; Genetic material - ds
(C) 5385,5385 (D) 5385,5386 DNA; Number of bp - 48502 bp
(C) Organism - E. coli; Genetic material - ds
Q15 DNA-dependent RNA polymerase also catalyse
DNA; Number of bp - 4.6 × 106 bp
the polymerisation in
(D) Organism - Human genome; Genetic
(A) 5' → 3'
material - ds DNA; Number of bp - 3.3 × 109
(B) 3' → 5'
bp
(C) Both (A) and (B)
(D) Neither (A) and (B) Q22 In a linear DNA molecule of 100bp, 30% is
guanine. Find the total number of hydrogen
Q16 In Griffith's experiment heat killed S-III strain
bonds and phosphodiester bonds in that DNA
transfers to living R-II strain to make it
(A) 200,200 (B) 260,198
(A) RNA, virulent
(C) 240,200 (D) 300,200
(B) DNA, harmless
(C) Some transforming principle, virulent Q23 The super coiling of DNA in E. coli cell is
(D) DNA, rough walled maintained by and the super coiled DNA is
called
Q17 Which RNA polymerase plays role in synthesis of
(A) Negatively charged histones, Nucleoid
5 s r-RNA?
(B) Polyamines, Nucleosome
(A) RNA polymerase-I
(C) Positively charged proteins, Nucleoid
(B) RNA polymerase-II
(D) Nucleosome, Nucleoid
(C) RNA polymerase-III
(D) Both (A) and (C) Q24 If antisense strand of DNA with 3′ → 5
′
polarity
has the following sequence, find the base
Q18 Split-gene arrangement can be seen in
sequence in mRNA of E . coli
(A) Eukaryotic gene
(A) 5'UAC CCG ACG AUC3'
(B) Prokaryotic gene
(B) 3'UAG CGU CGG GUA5'
(C) Viral gene
(C) 5'AUG GGC UGC UAG3'
(D) Both (B) and (C)
(D) 5'GAU CGU CGG GUA3'
Q19 During DNA and RNA synthesis, a nucleotide is
Q25 A transcription unit in prokaryotes usually
always attached to the newly formed strand at
contains
(A) 5′ end of new strand
(A) Structural genes flanked by promoter in
(B) 3' end of new strand
upstream and terminator in downstream
(C) 5' end of coding strand
(B) Structural genes flanked by terminator in
(D) 3' end of template strand
upstream and promoter in downstream

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(C) Structural genes flanked by a promoter in (D) Structural genes flanked by a receptor gene
upstream and an enhancer in downstream in upstream and a promoter in downstream

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Answer Key
Q1 (B) Q14 (A)

Q2 (B) Q15 (A)

Q3 (D) Q16 (C)

Q4 (D) Q17 (C)

Q5 (C) Q18 (A)

Q6 (B) Q19 (B)

Q7 (B) Q20 (D)

Q8 (C) Q21 (A)

Q9 (A) Q22 (B)

Q10 (D) Q23 (C)

Q11 (C) Q24 (C)

Q12 (A) Q25 (A)

Q13 (B)

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