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1.

In RNA thymine is replaced by

  • uracil

  • adenine

  • thiamine

  • guanine


2.

Assertion : Clones are a group of organisms of identical genotype, produced by a single parent through asexual means.

Reason : Clones exhibit high genetic variations.

  • If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.

  • If both the assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.

  • If assertion is true but reason is false

  • If both the assertion and reason are false.


3.

Radio-tracer technique shows that DNA is in

  • single-helix stage

  • double-helix stage

  • multi-helix stage

  • none of these


4.

Assertion : The mRNA attaches itself to the ribosome via its 3' end.

Reason : The mRNA has F-capsular nucleotide and bases of lagging sequence.

  • If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.

  • If both the assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.

  • If assertion is true but reason is false.

  • If both the assertion and reason are false.


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5.

Extranuclear genes occurs in

  • plastids and are not inherited

  • plasmid and are not inherited

  • mitochondria and are inherited by female

  • mitochondria and are inherited by male


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6.

The chemical knifes of DNA are

  • polymerases

  • ligases

  • endonucleases

  • amylases


C.

endonucleases

A restriction enzyme or restriction endonuclease is an enzyme that cleaves DNA into fragments at or near specific recognition sites within the molecule known restriction sites.


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7.

Wobble hypothesis was given by

  • R.W. Holley

  • M. Nirenberg

  • H.G. Khorana

  • F.H.C. Crick


8.

Assertion : Plasmids are double stranded extrachromosomal DNA.

Reason : Plasmids are possessed by eukaryotic cells.

  • If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.

  • If both the assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion

  • If assertion is true but reason is false.

  • If both the assertion and reason are false.


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9.

Assertion : Watson and Crick provided experimental proof of semiconservative nature of DNA replication.

Reason : DNA polymerase binds nucleotides in replication.

  • If both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explantion of Assertion

  • If both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is not the correct explanation of Assertion

  • If Assertion is true but Reason is false

  • If Assertion is false but Reason is true.


10.

A point mutation comprising the substitution of a purine by pyrimidine is called

  • transition

  • translocation

  • deletion

  • transversion


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