MCQ’s with Answers

FASTA

1) FASTA uses the __________ and ___________ algorithm to search for similarities.
a) Pearson and lipman
b) Pearson and Michael
c) John and Michael
d) Pearson and John A)
2) FASTA search for __________ between one sequence and any group of sequences of
same type as the query sequence.
a) Differences
b) Similarities
c) Both similarities and differences as well
d) None of the above B)
3) ___________ allows a protein query sequence to be compared to DNA databank.
a) MFASTA
b) LFASTA
c) NFASTA
d) TFASTA D)
4) FASTA is generally _____________ to make protein-protein comparisons.
a) Best
b) Good
c) Bad
d) Worst A)
5) EBI stands for _____________.
a) European Biotechnology institute
b) European biochemistry institute
c) European Bioinformatics institute
d) European biochemical institute C)
6) FASTA3 at ____________ is one of the most popular FASTA implementation.
a) European Biotechnology institute
b) European biochemistry institute
c) European Bioinformatics institute
d) European biochemical institute C)
7) Proteomes and __________ FASTA provides sequence and homology against complete
proteome or genome database.
a) Genes
b) Genomes
c) Both a and b
d) None of these B)
8) SNP sequences can be searched with ___________ at the EBI.
a) FASTA server
b) FASTA service
c) FASTA service provider
d) FASTA communicator A)
9) TFASTA compares a protein sequence to a _______ sequence.
a) DNA
b) RNA
c) Nucleotide
d) All of these A)
10) LFASTA identifies one or more regions of similarity between _____ sequences.
a) Two
b) Three
c) Four
d) Many A)
11) PLFASTA presents a ______ matrix plot of regions of sequence similarity between 2-
sequences.
a) Double
b) Point
c) Single
d) Dot A)
12) SwissProt is a __________ sequence Database.
a) Nucleotide
b) Aminoacids
c) Protein
d) All of these C)
13) The first part of the ___________ output is the histogram.
a) FASTA
b) BLAST
c) Both a and b
d) None of these A)
14) The first part of the FASTA output is the __________.
 a) Best scoring sequences
b) Sequence listing
c) Histogram
d) Local alignments C)
15) FASTA calculates an ________ value.
a) F-value
b) G-value
c) H-value
d) E-value D)
16) E-value is called __________.
a) Expectation of single
b) Expectation of significance
c) Expectation of sum
d) Experience of sum B)
17) E-values of 0.02 or less indicate that the aligned proteins are homologs with
__________ confidence.
a) Low
b) High
c) Medium
d) None B)
18) E = _________
a) D*A
b) D*E
c) D*P
d) D*H C)
19) Which matrix is used in FASTA algorithm to re-score?
a) DOT
b) Pearson
c) Lipman
d) PAM D)
20) __________ compares a protein sequence to another protein sequence or a DNA
sequence to another DNA sequence.
a) OMIM
b) FASTA
c) MINT
d) KEGG B)
21) Genbank subdivision for ________ is “gb_ro:* “
a) Rice
 b) Recombinant
c) Rodent
d) RNA C)
22) Genbank subdivision for _________ is “gb_vi:*”
a) Venom
b) Vitamin
c) Viral
d) None of these C)
23) GenBank subdivision for plant is __________.
a) gb_pla
b) gb_pl
c) gb_pt
d) gb_plt B)
24) Lalign is a FASTA programs from University of _____________.
a) Punjab
b) Vetnam
c) Virginia
d) California C)
25) FASTA uses a ____________ method in the initial search for regions of similarity.
a) Dash-coding
b) Hash-coding
c) Deal-coding
d) End-coding B)
26) FASTA goes a step forward and calculates the sum of the dots along each _________.
a) Line
b) Measurement
c) Side
d) Diagonal D)
27) FASTA is a __________ based method.
a) Matrix
b) Language
c) Word
d) None of these C)
28) FASTA looks for matching word or the sequence patterns called _________.
a) F-tuples
b) M-tuples
c) E-tuples
d) K-tuples D)
29) FASTA starts by making a generalization from the concept of _________ plots.
a) Single
b) Double
c) Dot
d) Point C)
30) The larger the k-tuple chosen, the more rapid but less thorough , is the database
________.
a) Combination
b) Recovery
c) Arrangement
d) Search D)