WorksheetsBioinformatics and Biostatistics MCQ
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
The first Bioinformatics database was created by
Richard Durbin
Dayhoff
Michael J Dunn
Pearson
Human Genome contains about
2 billion base pairs
4 billion base pairs
5 billion base pairs
3 billion base pairs
You see that your lab partner is starting at a colourful UniProt page. He is probably trying to
Translate a DNA segment into protein
Find out structural and functional information about a protein he is identified.
Determine how many harmful mutations havebeen reported in a certain gene
Identify an aminoacid sequence.
Which of the following is a nucleotide database
EMBL
SWISS PROT
PROSITE
TrEMBL
BLOSUM matrices are used for
Multiple Sequence Analysis
Pairwise sequence alignment
Phylogenetic
Analysis
All the above
Phylogenetic relationship can be shown by
Dendrogram
Gene Bank
Data retrieving tool
Data search tool
Sequence alignment helps scientists
To trace out evolutionary relationships
To infer the functions of newly synthesized genes
To predict new members of gene families.
All the above
Which of the following is a sequence alignment tool provided by NCBI
Chime
BLAST
FASTA
Clustal W
Variation between individuals due to single base change is called as
ESTs
contigs
SNPs
Transversion
Proteomics is the study of
Set of
proteins
Set of proteins in a specific region of the cell
The entire set of expressed proteins in a cell
None of these
Which of the following is incorrect regarding the terminologies of phylogenetics?
The connecting point where two adjacent branches join is called a node
Node represents an inferred ancestor of extent taxa
At the tips of the branches are long lost species or sequences
The lines in the tree are called branches
Biostatistics is also called as
Statistics in biology
Bionemerology
Biometry
Both a and b
Who is regarded as the father of biostatistics
Fischer
Karl Pearson
Francis Galton
Francis Bacon
The number of fruits in a tree is a
Quantitative variables
Discrete variable
Absolute variable
Continuous variables
A circle divided into sectors proportional to the frequency of items shown is called
Bar chart
Pie Chart
Histogram
Frequency Polygon
Variable whose values can be expressed numerically are called
Quantitative variables
Qualitative variables
Absolute variables
Continuous
variables
Which of the following is not a central tendency measure
Mean
Median
Mode
Range
Find the mode.(11,12,13,12,13,12,12,11,14,15)
11
12
13
14
Find the mean.(1,2,3,4,5,6)
3.5
3.2
3.4
3.7
Retrieval tool of NCBI
Entrez
BankIt
Sequin
ARSA
