Genomics & Bioinformatics

Application of bioinformatics include

• Data storage and management
• Drug designing
• Understanding relationship between organisms or molecules
• All of the above

In a molecule of double-stranded DNA, the amount of Adenine present is always equal to the amount of

• cytosine
• guanine
• thymine
• uracil

DNA Sequencing

• Determining the order of nucleotides
• DNA Synthesis
• Chromosome mapping
• All of the above

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-1

International effort to identify all the approx 30,000 genes in the human DNA.

• Bioinformatics

• Genomics

• Forensics

• Human Genome Project

Science of managing and analyzing biological data using advanced computers.

• Bioinformatics

• Genomics

• Forensics

• Human Genome Project

Study of genes and their function.

• Forensics

• Bioinformatics

• Genomics

• Human Genome Project

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

Fundamental physical and functional unit of heredity that exists in segments of DNA.

• Nucleus

• Chromosome

• Cell

• Genes

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

used to detect and measure the expression of genes at one time

• PCR

• gel electrophoresis

• DNA fingerprinting

• DNA microarray

a technology that combines biological science, computer science, and information technology to enable the discovery of new biological insights and unifying principles

• bioethics

• bioinformatics

• genetic engineering

• polymerase chain reaction

How many TOTAL chromosomes do humans have?

• 2
• 44
• 46
• 23