Computational Tools In Biotechnology - Study Mode

[#21] The study of evolutionary relationships is known as
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(C) Phylogenetics

[#22] Program used for essentially local similarity search is
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(A) BLAST

[#23] The length of the minimum unique stretch of DNA sequence that can be found only once in a 3 billion base pairs long genome is
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(C) 16

[#24] Which of the following statements are CORRECT when a protein sequence database is searched using the BLAST algorithm? P. A larger E-value indicates higher sequence similarity. Q. E-value < 10 -10 indicates sequence homology. R. A higher BLAST score indicates higher sequence similarity. S. E-value > 10 -10 indicates sequence homology.
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(B) Q and R only

[#25] Which one of the following is a database of protein sequence motifs?
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(A) PROSITE