Genetic Material and Databases Quiz

The complete set of genetic material in an organism is referred to as the:

• Transcriptome

• Genome

• Proteome

• Metabolome

Which of the following represents the total set of RNA molecules expressed in a cell?

• Genome

• Transcriptome

• Proteome

• Epigenome

The proteome is defined as:

• The entire set of genes in an organism

• The set of all RNA transcripts in a cell

• The complete set of proteins expressed by a genome

• The collection of small molecules within a cell

Which of the following is a common method used for gene prediction?

• Homology modeling

• Sequence alignment

• Hidden Markov Models (HMMs)

• Phylogenetic analysis

Which software is widely used for gene prediction in eukaryotes?

• BLAST

• GeneMark

• CLUSTALW

• PyMOL

Ab initio gene prediction methods rely on:

• Sequence homology with known genes

• Computational models of gene structure

• Protein structure databases

• Protein-protein interaction data

Which of the following is an example of a primary nucleic acid database?

• SCOP

• CATH

• GenBank

• Pfam

Primary databases store:

• Derived data, such as protein families

• Annotated protein structures

• Raw sequence data directly from sequencing experiments

• Protein-protein interaction networks

Secondary nucleic acid databases are characterized by:

• Storing raw sequence data

• Storing annotated and interpreted data

• Housing physical protein structures

• Containing DNA sequence alignments

CATH and SCOP are databases that classify:

• Gene expression data

• RNA sequences

• Protein structures

• Genomic variants