Sequence Alignment Quiz

What are the three types of changes that can occur in a sequence?

• Deletion, insertion, and substitution

• Transcription, translation, and replication

• Mutation, recombination, and translocation

• Addition, multiplication, and division

What is the primary goal of local alignment?

• To identify conserved sequences

• To introduce gaps in sequences

• To find the most similar sections between sequences

• To align entire sequences end-to-end

Which alignment method is used to find motifs and highly similar regions?

• Global alignment

• Local alignment

• Multiple sequence alignment

• Pairwise alignment

How does global alignment differ from local alignment?

• It focuses on aligning sections of sequences

• It only applies to RNA sequences

• It matches sequences end-to-end by introducing gaps

• It does not use gaps

What is the purpose of introducing gaps in global alignment?

• To shorten the sequences

• To identify motifs

• To increase the number of sequence matches

• To remove conserved sequences