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Biosensors and Biochips problems


  • 1. Microarray analysis involves biological assays based on

  • Options
  • A. gels
  • B. filters
  • C. purification columns
  • D. small glass chips
  • Discuss
  • 2. The inosine and hypoxanthine can be determined simultaneously by using

  • Options
  • A. inosine sensor
  • B. inosine and hypoxanthine sensor
  • C. amorphous silicon ISFET
  • D. urea sensor
  • Discuss
  • 3. Single stranded circular RNA encapsidated with a larger RNA in a plant virus is

  • Options
  • A. a virion
  • B. a viroid
  • C. a virusoid
  • D. none of these
  • Discuss
  • 4. Pollination is the process by which plants transfer male sex cells from one plant to another. How does the nucleus of the male cell reach the female cell?

  • Options
  • A. It travels on the legs of bees and sticks to the egg cell
  • B. The pollen grain grows a pollen tube and the nucleus travels down the pollen tube to reach the egg cell
  • C. It blows in the wind
  • D. None of the above
  • Discuss
  • 5. What is the size (in kb) of the tobacco chloroplast genome?

  • Options
  • A. 55 kilobase
  • B. 155 kilobase
  • C. 325 kilobase
  • D. 375 kilobase
  • Discuss
  • 6. A micro array is an ordered array of microscopic elements on a planer substrate that allows the specific binding of

  • Options
  • A. gene or gene products
  • B. whole genome
  • C. both (a) and (b)
  • D. none of these
  • Discuss
  • 7. To qualify as a micro array the analytical device must be

  • Options
  • A. ordered
  • B. microscopic
  • C. planer and specific
  • D. all of these
  • Discuss
  • 8. Biochips are made up of

  • Options
  • A. semi-conducting molecules inserted into the protein frame work
  • B. conducting molecules inserted into the protein frame work
  • C. non-conducting molecules inserted into the protein frame work
  • D. any of the above
  • Discuss

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