Bioinformatics @ GT Kickoff!

Which of the following is NOT a DNA nucleotide?

• adenine (A)

• cytosine (C)

• guanine (G)

• uracil (U)

• thymine (T)

An enzyme is a:

• protein

• lipid

• nucleic acid

• microorganism

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NGSS.HS-LS1-1

What does NGS stand for?

• Nucleotide genome sequences

• Next-generation sequencing

• Neurogenetic sciences

• National Genomics Society

Which company pioneered next-gen sequencing?

• Illumina

• Verily

• Calico

• ThermoFisher Scientific

An enzyme is a biological catalyst that breaks down a(n) ______ into products.

• allele

• nucleotide sequence

• lipid

• substrate

Three nucleotides make up a _____, which is the building blocks of an amino acid.

• codon

• protein pair

• triglyceride

• aminide

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NGSS.HS-LS1-6

A FASTQ file—the output of high-throughput sequencing equipment—is akin to what file format?

• XML (eXtensible Markup Language)

• CSV (comma separated values)

• JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)

• TXT (Text)

Sanger sequencing is significantly more accurate than next-generation sequencing.

• True

• False

Whose work on the X-ray diffraction images of DNA led to the eventual discovery of DNA?

• Maurice Wilkins

• Francis Crick

• James Watson

• Rosalind Franklin

About ______ gigabytes of genetic data is sequenced per year.

• 300 million

• 1.4 billion

• 19 billion

• 40 billion

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2