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  • Question
  • What is the maximum number of different amino acids in a polypeptide chain coded by the synthetic polyribonucleotides (UCAG)5?


  • Options
  • A. One
  • B. Two
  • C. Three
  • D. Four

  • Correct Answer
  • Three 


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    • 1. 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
    • 2. 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
    • 3. 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
    • 4. 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
    • 5. When was the genetic code completed?

    • Options
    • A. 1958
    • B. 1952
    • C. 1966
    • D. 1968
    • Discuss
    • 6. Which binding is inhibited by pactamycin?

    • Options
    • A. Aminoacyl-tRNA to the A-site of 30S subunit
    • B. Initiator-tRNA to 30S/40S initiation complexes
    • C. Peptidyl t-RNA to the 50S subunit
    • D. Formation of peptide bond in P site
    • Discuss
    • 7. Which stop codon has been found to encode selenocysteine?

    • Options
    • A. UAA
    • B. UAG
    • C. UGA
    • D. AGA
    • Discuss
    • 8. Which of the following defines an open reading frame (ORF)?

    • Options
    • A. A sequence of genome in bacteriophage
    • B. The sequence of a complete genome
    • C. A plasmid vector used in genome sequencing
    • D. A possible gene predicted by DNA sequencing
    • Discuss
    • 9. The final step of gene expression is protein synthesis, which is also known as

    • Options
    • A. replication
    • B. translation
    • C. transcription
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss
    • 10. Site in the ribosome from which the tRNA donates amino acids to the growing polypeptide chain is

    • Options
    • A. P site
    • B. O site
    • C. T site
    • D. A site
    • Discuss


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