Biology

Molecular Biology and Genetics

717 Questions

Molecular biology and genetics explore the structure and function of DNA, RNA, genetic mutations, and heredity. Understanding these building blocks of life is essential for most biology examinations. Review these practice questions to test your molecular genetics knowledge.

DNA structure and basesGenetic mutationsNucleic acids compositionDNA sequencing and replication

Molecular Biology and Genetics Questions

Multiple choice
  1. Conserved sequences

  2. International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration

  3. Linguistic sequence complexity

  4. Sequence hypothesis

  5. Nucleic acid sequence

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

This option is correct. Conserved sequences are identical sequences that occur within nucleic acid sequences, peptide sequences, protein structures and polysaccharides across species or within different molecules, produced by the same organism.

Multiple choice
  1. Glycol nucleic acid

  2. In silico PCR

  3. Locked nucleic acid

  4. Nucleic acid analogue

  5. UCbase

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

This option is correct. Glycol nucleic acid is a polymer identical to DNA or RNA but differing in the composition of its backbone. DNA and RNA have a deoxyribose and ribose sugar backbone, respectively. GNA's backbone is composed of repeating glycol units linked by phosphodiester bonds.

Multiple choice
  1. A and R both are correct and R is the correct explanation of A.

  2. A and R both are correct and R is not the correct explanation of A.

  3. A is correct and R is incorrect.

  4. A is incorrect and R is correct.

  5. A and R both are incorrect.

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Purines can hydrogen bond only with pyrimidines, where pyrimidine-pyrimidine pairing is energetically unfavorable because the molecules are too far apart for H-bonding to be formed. Thus, this option is correct.

Multiple choice
  1. Only 1

  2. Only 2

  3. Only 3

  4. Only 1 and 2

  5. Only 2 and 3

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

This option is correct. Wobble base pair is a pairing between two nucleotides in RNA molecules that do not follow Watson-Crick base pair rules. The four main wobble base pairs are guanine-uracil (G-U), hypoxanthine-uracil (I-U), hypoxanthine-adenine (I-A) and hypoxanthine-cytosine (I-C).

Multiple choice
  1. A - 1, B - 2, C - 3

  2. A - 3, B - 1, C - 2

  3. A - 2, B - 3, C - 1

  4. A - 2, B - 1, C - 3

  5. A - 3, B - 2, C - 1

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

This option is correct because all nucleic acids are correctly matched. Peptide nucleic acid is an artificially synthesised polymer similar to DNA or RNA invented by Peter E. Nielsen. A locked nucleic acid is a modified RNA nucleotide synthesised by the group of Jesper Wengel. Threose nucleic acid is an artificial genetic polymer invented by Albert Eschenmoser.  

Multiple choice
  1. RNA

  2. chromosomes

  3. genes

  4. peptides

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Genes - Functional segments of DNA are called genes which regulates the process of development of a cell. Functional segments mean that the information encoded within the DNA structure of a gene directs the manufacture of proteins that carry out life supporting activities. 

Multiple choice
  1. Deoxyribonucleic Acid

  2. Dioxyribonucleic Acid

  3. Diribonucleic Acid

  4. Deribonucleic Acid

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Deoxy - Removal of oxygen DNA is the genetic material found in all living organisms. Functional unit of DNA is called genes which regulates the process of development of a cell. All characters of individual are dependent on the types of genes. DNA is made up of deoxyribose sugar which is a fine carbon sugar (one atom of oxygen is removed from the ribose sugar). It also consists of nucleic acid. Nucleic acid are made up of bases, sugar and phosphate group. Bases are of 4 types in DNA consisting of Adenine (A), Thymine (T), Guanine (G) and Cytosine (C).(B), (C) and (D) are wrong terms.

Multiple choice
  1. Nitrogenous base

  2. Phosphate group

  3. Pentose sugar

  4. None of these

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

A nucleoside is a compound that contains a nitrogenous-base bound to a deoxyribose or a ribose sugar.It does not contain phosphate group. It occurs when nucleic acids are hydrolyzed or broken down.

Multiple choice
  1. Monosaccharides

  2. Nucleotide

  3. Amino acids

  4. Fatty acids

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Nucleotides are the single units that make up nucleic acids like RNA and DNA - literally the building blocks of life.A nucleotide is the monomer structural unit of nucleotide chains that form the nucleic acids RNA and DNA, as well as several lesser nucleic acids. The nucleotide consists of a heterocyclic nucleobase, a pentose sugar like ribose or deoxyribose, and a phosphate or polyphosphate group.