Multiple Choice Questions

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Balbiani rings are the structural features of

  • allosomes

  • polytene chromosomes

  • autosomes

  • lampbrush chromosomes


B.

polytene chromosomes

Balbiani rings are large RNA puffs reported in the salivary gland chromosomes of Chironomus insect during larval development.


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Which of the following is not a Pyrimidine?

  • Thymine

  • Uracil

  • Guanine

  • Cytosine


DNA element with ability to change position is called

  • cistron

  • transposon

  • intron

  • recon


Repressor protein is produced by

  • regulator gene

  • operator gene

  • structural gene

  • promoter gene


Jumping genes in maize were discovered by

  • Hugo de Vries

  • Barbara McClintock

  • T H Morgan

  • Mendel


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The back bone of RNA consists of which of the following sugar?

  • Deoxyribose

  • Ribose

  • Sucrose

  • Maltose


Stop codons are

  • AUG, GUG

  • UAA, UGA, UAG

  • UAC, UGG

  • AGU, AGA, UAC


A eukaryotic gene contains two kinds of base sequences. Which of these plays an important role in protein synthesis?

  • Introns

  • Exons

  • Both (a) and (b)

  • None of these


Initiation codon is

  • UUU

  • UGA

  • AUG

  • UAG


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DNA mutiplication is called

  • translation

  • replication

  • transduction

  • transcription


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