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  • Question
  • What is the direct cause of cell death by diphtheria toxin?


  • Options
  • A. Formation of an ion channel in the cell membrane
  • B. Inactivation of a translational elongation factor
  • C. Induction of apoptosis
  • D. None of the above

  • Correct Answer
  • Inactivation of a translational elongation factor 


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    • 1. The interaction between the mRNA and tRNA determined the position of amino acid in a polypeptide sequence. This is called the

    • Options
    • A. stagerivity
    • B. Wobble hypothesis
    • C. promiscuity
    • D. adaptor hypothesis
    • Discuss
    • 2. Which of the following lacks 3'-5' exonuclease activity?

    • Options
    • A. Short fragment of DNA polymerase I
    • B. Taq DNA polymerase
    • C. T4 DNA ligase
    • D. All of the above
    • Discuss
    • 3. Both strands of DNA serve as templates concurrently in

    • Options
    • A. replication
    • B. excision repair
    • C. mismatch repair
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss
    • 4. In E.coli, which enzyme synthesizes the RNA primer for Okazaki fragments?

    • Options
    • A. DnaA
    • B. DnaC
    • C. DnaG
    • D. all of these
    • Discuss
    • 5. Which of the following repairs nicked DNA by forming a phosphodiester bond between adjacent nucleotides?

    • Options
    • A. Helicase
    • B. DNA gyrase
    • C. Topoisomerases
    • D. DNA ligase
    • Discuss
    • 6. When was the genetic code completed?

    • Options
    • A. 1958
    • B. 1952
    • C. 1966
    • D. 1968
    • Discuss
    • 7. The ribosome binding site

    • Options
    • A. forms a stem-loop structure in the RNA
    • B. is located upstream of the promoter sequence
    • C. is located immediately upstream of the start codon
    • D. is more likely to be associated with an operon than with a gene encoding a single protein
    • Discuss
    • 8. Which of the following act as the blueprint or template for the process of protein synthesis that takes place on ribosomes?

    • Options
    • A. rRNA
    • B. DNA
    • C. tRNA
    • D. mRNA
    • Discuss
    • 9. Three stop codons, which aids in termination of translation are also known as

    • Options
    • A. pause codons
    • B. nonsense codons
    • C. missense codons
    • D. antisense codons
    • Discuss
    • 10. What is the action of tetracycline in prokaryotes?

    • Options
    • A. It blocks translocation reaction on ribosomes
    • B. It blocks peptidyl transferase reaction on ribosomes
    • C. It blocks the binding of amino-acyl tRNA to the A site of ribosomes
    • D. Not known with certainity
    • Discuss


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