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Bioinformatics

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The Human Genome has (a)   pairs of chromosomes

2.
What are the nucleotides made of?
a)
Sugar, Phosphate, nitrogen base
b)
Phosphate, Adenine, nitrogen base
c)
Thymine, Adenine, Cytomine
d)
Phosphate, Nitrogen, Adenine
3.
Which of the following best describes a DNA molecule?
a)
double helix
b)
contains ribose
c)
made of amino acids
d)
contains Uracil
4.
What are the 4 nitrogen bases?
a)
adenine, thymine, cytoplasm, and guanine
b)
adenine, thymine cytosine, and guanine
c)
adenine, thymine, cytosine, and gylcerol
d)
adenine, thymine, cytosine, and glucose
5.

Which database stores nucleotide sequences

a)

Genbank

b)

BLAST

c)

SWISSPROT

d)

Unigene

6.

Informatics in Bioinformatics can perform

a)

Data Management

b)

Data Computation

c)

Data Mining

d)

All of these

7.

People in this career field use computers and technology to gain a new understanding of biology (living things).

a)

Healthcare

b)

Biomanufacturing

c)

Genetics and Bioscience

d)

Bioinformatics

8.
Application of bioinformatics include
a)
Data storage and management
b)
Drug designing
c)
Understanding relationship between organisms or molecules
d)
All of the above
9.
Which information was most important to the development of genetic engineering techniques?
a)
the observation of nondominant alleles
b)
the discovery of lethal genes
c)
the formulation of Punnett squares
d)
the structure of the DNA molecule
10.

If I insert genes from a squid into your genome; you would be what kind of organism?

a)

transgenic

b)

recombinant

c)

foreign

d)

cisternic

11.

Name a way that genetic engineering in plants is beneficial

a)

Decreased crop yield

b)

Decreased resistance to disease

c)

Increased resistance to disease

d)

Increased pests

12.

Testing humans for a potential genetic disorder is an example of

a)

gene knockout

b)

transgenic studies

c)

genetic screening

d)

gene therapy

13.
Which enzyme "glues" DNA fragments together?
a)
restriction enzymes
b)
DNA ligase
c)
DNA polymerase
d)
DNA helicase
14.

"transgenic" refers to an animal that:

a)

Has DNA from another organism spliced into its genome

b)

Has undergone DNA modification

c)

Has unique genes for its species

15.

What is recombinant DNA

a)

DNA from 2 different organisms combined

b)

DNA from 2 different ribosomes

c)

DNA that is separated out from a vector

16.
vectors 
a)
plasmid or virus that contains or carries modified genetic material 
b)
They can be used to represent any quantity that has magnitude, has direction
c)
displacement 
d)
velocity 
17.

It is the transfer of genetic material for the purpose of treating human disease.

a)

chemotherapy

b)

gene therapy

c)

gene transfer

d)

gene editing

18.

an enzyme that destroys foreign DNA molecules by cutting them at specific sites

a)

recombinant DNA

b)

telomere

c)

restriction enzyme

d)

vector

19.

an organism's complete set of proteins

a)

proteomics

b)

telomere

c)

vector

d)

proteome

20.

the study of all of an organism's proteins, including its identity, structure, interaction, and abundance

a)

proteomics

b)

bioethics

c)

bioinformatics

d)

Human Genome Project

21.

a circular DNA molecule that is usually found in bacteria and that can replicate independent of the main chromosome

a)

primer

b)

probe

c)

proteome

d)

plasmid

22.

the pattern of bands that results when an individual's DNA sample is radiolabeled and exposed to X rays after being fragmented, replicated, and separated

a)

DNA fingerprint

b)

DNA vaccine

c)

plasmid

d)

proteome

23.

an organism that is produced by asexual reproduction and that is genetically identical to its parent; to make a genetic duplicate

a)

cloning by nuclear transfer

b)

gene therapy

c)

clone

d)

Human Genome Project

24.
What is DNA sequencing?
a)
The total of genes carried by an individual or cell
b)
Coding genes in order to identify single nucleotide polymorphisms
c)
Deciphering the functions of various parts of the human genome
d)
The process of identifying the order of the bases in DNA
25.
What is a genome?
a)
The complete set of genetic material present in a cell or organism
b)
A garden ornament 
c)
The sum of all human material.
d)
A totally unique set of genetic material not shared with anything else
26.
Which best describes the impact that the Human Genome Project has has on society?
a)
It has helped scientists determine that certain genes can cause diseases 
b)
It has led to discrimination against genetically flawed individuals
c)
It has led to the appearance of new diseases
d)
It has cost society billions of dollars without any major benefits
27.
How many TOTAL chromosomes do humans have?
a)
2
b)
44
c)
46
d)
23
28.

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

a)

Nucleus

b)

Chromosome

c)

Cell

d)

Genes

29.

Study of genes and their function.

a)

Forensics

b)

Bioinformatics

c)

Genomics

d)

Human Genome Project

30.

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

a)

Bioinformatics

b)

Genomics

c)

Forensics

d)

Human Genome Project