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  1. A complete restriction digestion of a circular plasmid (5000bp) was carried out with HindIII,BamHIandEcoRI individually. Restriction digestion yielded following fragments. 
    Plasmid + HindIII→ 1200bp and3800bp 
    Plasmid + BamHI→5000bp 
    Plasmid + EcoRI→ 2500bp
    The number of sites for EcoRI,BamHIandHindIIIpresent on this plasmid are
  2. A.
    EcoRI-2, BamHI-1, HindIII-2
    B.
    EcoRI-1, BamHI-1, HindIII-2
    C.
    EcoRI-3, BamHI-2, HindIII-1
    D.
    EcoRI-2, BamHI-2, HindIII-1

  3. The total number of fragments generated by the complete and sequential cleavage of the polypeptide given below by Trypsin followed by CNBr is _________ 
    Phe-Trp-Met-Gly-Ala-Lys-Leu-Pro-Met-Asp-Gly-Arg-Cys-Ala-Gln
  4. A.
    5
    B.
    10
    C.
    15
    D.
    25

  5. In a genetic study, 80 people were found to have alleles for polydactyly. Only 36 of them were polydactylous. What is the extent of penetrance percentage? ________
  6. A.
    40
    B.
    45
    C.
    50
    D.
    60

  7. One percent of the cars manufactured by a company are defective. What is the probability (upto four decimals) that more than two cars are defective, if 100 cars are produced? __________
  8. A.
    0.034 to 0.044
    B.
    0.037 to 0.038
    C.
    0.075 to 0.085
    D.
    0.048 to 0.058

  9. The maximum cell concentration (g l-1) expected in a bioreactor with initial cell concentration of 1.75 g l-1 and an initial glucose concentration of 125 g l-1 is (Yx/s = 0.6 g cell/g substrate) ________
  10. A.
    67.4 to 67.6
    B.
    43.4 to 43.6
    C.
    87.4 to 87.6
    D.
    76.7 to 76.9

  11. A fed batch culture was operated with intermittent addition of glucose solution at a flow rate of 200 ml h-1. The values of Ks, μm and D are 0.3 g l-1, 0.4 h-1 and 0.1 h-1, respectively. Determine the concentration of growth limiting substrate (gl-1) in the reactor at quasi-steady state. ____________
  12. A.
    0.4
    B.
    0.2
    C.
    0.1
    D.
    0.7

  13. A solution was prepared by dissolving 100 mg of protein X in 100 ml of water. 
    Molecular weight of protein X is 15,000 Da; Avogadro's number = 6.022 * 1023
    Calculate the molarity(μM) of the resulting solution.
  14. A.
    66.6
    B.
    6.6
    C.
    0.67
    D.
    0.067

  15. The binding efficiency of three different receptorsR1, R2 and R3 were tested against a ligand using equilibrium dialysis, with a constant concentration of receptor and varying concentrations of ligand. The Scatchard plot of receptor titration with different concentration of ligand is given below (ris moles of bound ligand per moles of receptor and c is concentration of free ligand)

    The number of ligand binding sites present on receptors R1 and R3, respectively are
  16. A.
    1 and 4
    B.
    1 and 1
    C.
    4 and 1
    D.
    2 and 2

  17. The binding efficiency of three different receptorsR1, R2 and R3 were tested against a ligand using equilibrium dialysis, with a constant concentration of receptor and varying concentrations of ligand. The Scatchard plot of receptor titration with different concentration of ligand is given below (ris moles of bound ligand per moles of receptor and c is concentration of free ligand)

    Which one of the receptors has the highestaffinity for the ligand?
  18. A.
    R1
    B.
    R2
    C.
    R3
    D.
    R4

  19. A DNA fragment of 5000bp needs to be isolated from E.coli (genome size 4*103kb) genomic library.
    The minimum number of independent recombinant clones required to represent this fragment in genomic library are
  20. A.
    16*102
    B.
    12*102
    C.
    8*102
    D.
    1.25*102