Microbiology - DNA Sequencing, Mutation and Repair

Exercise : DNA Sequencing, Mutation and Repair - Section 1
  • DNA Sequencing, Mutation and Repair - Section 1
16.
Which of these mechanisms for thymine dimers repair lead to mutations?
Excision repair
Photoreactivation
SOS repair
Never leads to mutation
Answer: Option
Explanation:
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17.
Frame shift mutation may occur as a result of
formation of a thymine-dimer
deamination of cytosine to uracil
conversion of guanine to xanthine
none of the above
Answer: Option
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18.
Thymine dimers are directly repaired with the help of visible light by process known as
phosphorylation
excision repair
photosynthesis
photoreactivation
Answer: Option
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19.
The promoter on an expression vector used to overproduce proteins in bacteria is
a bacterial promoter
expressed both in bacteria and mammalian cells
not a regulated promoter
the natural promoter of the gene being cloned
Answer: Option
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20.
Differentiation of four different bases in automated sequencing systems is that each base has
different radioactive tag
cytosine at start
unique antibody bound to it
distinctive fluorescent tag
Answer: Option
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