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P.T.O.
MAR IVANIOS COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS)
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
Reg. No.:.………………… Name:...…………………
Sixth Semester B.Sc. Degree Examination, April 2018
First Degree Programme under CBCSS
Core Course: Botany VIII
AUBO642: Molecular Biology, General Informatics Bioinformatics
(Common for Regular 2015 and Reappearance 2014 Admn.)
Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 80
SECTION A
Write short notes on ALL the following.
1. KEGG
2. Digital divide
3. DDBJ
4. Cistron
5. Oncogenes
6. B-DNA
7. Phishing
8. Okazaki fragments
9. INFLIBNET
10. Rasmol
(10 1 10 Marks)
SECTION B
Answer any EIGHT questions, not exceeding one paragraph.
11. Differentiate A and Z DNA.
12. What is the difference between jumping genes and luxury genes?
13. Why DNA replication is semi-conservative?
14. What is the role of mRNA in transcription?
15. What is central dogma reverse?
16. Differentiate exons and introns.
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17. Differentiate Swissprot and Uniprot.
18. What is application software? Give one example.
19. What is plagiarism? How plagiarism is determined using computer?
20. Differentiate IPR and Trademark.
21. What is BLAST?
22. Differentiate wetlab and weblab.
2 16 Marks)
SECTION C
Short essay type: Answer any SIX questions.
23. 'DNA as genetic material'. Give Hershey-Chase experimental evidence.
24. Briefly explain Phylip and Clustal X.
25. What are input and output devices? Give 2 examples for each.
26. Explain the structure and functions of tRNA.
27. Describe Lac operon.
28. Write four applications of Bioinformatics.
29. Write down on Phylogenetic tree.
30. What are the health issues related to computer usage?
31. Give an account on cyber crimes.
4 24 Marks)
SECTION D
Long essay type: Answer any Two questions.
32. Explain in detail the mechanism of transcription and translation.
33. What is a database? Explain the different biological databases.
34. Explain in detail the process of DNA replication in prokaryotes.
35. Give an account on the software and hardware components of computer.
15 30 Marks)