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Bioinformatics And Biosensors — Part 1 MCQs with Explanations

Practice high-yield Biotechnology Engineering MCQs on Bioinformatics And Biosensors — Part 1 with worked academic solutions for PPSC, FPSC, NIH, NTS.

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40
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PPSC, FPSC, NIH...
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Exam-Level PPSC FPSC NIH NTS
Verified for Commission Syllabus • Oct 14, 2026
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Question 1 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Microarray gene chips will eventually be used to

Question 2 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is least likely to be involved in stabilizing the three dimensional folding of most proteins?

Question 3 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

BLAST is an algorithm for comparing

Question 4 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Characterizing molecular component is

Question 5 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Lux AB bioreporter contain

Question 6 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Sometimes signal only occurs when a secondary substrate like the following is added to the bioassay

Question 7 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following can detect extremely low levels of proteins, hormones, pollutants, gases and other molecules?

Question 8 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

The field that is concerned with the management and analysis of biological data using computers

Question 9 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Several major international databases for application to genomics and proteomics have been established as mirror site under the

Question 10 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

ESTs are

Question 11 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

The translated genes of genomes that encode proteins are referred to as

Question 12 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Who first developed the DNA sequencing approach using dideoxynucleoside in DNA synthesis?

Question 13 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Labelling a stretch of DNA according to its function is called

Question 14 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is mismatched

Question 15 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

To best understand the function of a gene; analysis is often most useful at

Question 16 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which is wrong?

Question 17 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

The first bioinformatics database was created by

Question 18 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is a limitation of blotting technique

Question 19 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Eukaryotic DNA

Question 20 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

What step of DNA sequencing is skipped during shot-gun sequencing?

Question 21 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Reporter gene is turned on when

Question 22 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following method makes use of information that can be expressed through intra and intermolecular distances

Question 23 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

The goal of . . . . . . . . is to determine the location of specific genes within the genome.

Question 24 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Today; computer program such as . . . . . . . . are used daily to search sequences form more than 260,000 organism containing over . . . . . . . . billion nucleotides

Question 25 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is used to read light signal

Question 26 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which among the following is likely to be important for structure based drug design?

Question 27 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Bioreporters refer to

Question 28 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which type of genomics studies the physical nature of genomes?

Question 29 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which among the following is a compiled programming language?

Question 30 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Luciferases can be found in bacteria, algae, fungi, jellyfish, insects, shrimp and squid and the resulting light that these organisms produce is termed

Question 31 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Match the following and select the correct answer: Column-I Column-II a. UPGMA 1. Protein sequence database b. CLUSTAL 2. Phylogenetic analysi c. SWISS-PROT 3. 3-D structure visualization d. Ras Mol 4. Multiple sequence alignment

Question 32 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

The genome-wide comparative mRNA expression profile between normal and cancer cells can be studied using the microarray technology. The basic approach of this technology is

Question 33 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Sequence analysis of a human gene NFI showed that a region of the protein has homology to a yeast protein called Ira. Which of the following you think is most appropriate explanation for this sequence homology?

Question 34 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is the most preferred website for searching original research articles in medicine?

Question 35 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which bacterial genome was the first to be completely sequenced?

Question 36 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following gene is most commonly found to have mutated when a cancer is detected and biosensors are used in this

Question 37 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Phylogeny describes a species

Question 38 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Firefly luciferase catalyzes a reaction that produces visible light in the

Question 39 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

An example homology and similarity tool

Question 40 of 40
★ PPSC ★ FPSC

Which of the following is a kind of DNA sequences

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