NEET
Botany

Human Genome Project

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Consistency: 30%
Weightage: 6 / 20 Yrs

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Questions
7 MCQs

01
PYQ 2007
medium
botany ID: neet-200

A sequential expression of a set of human genes occurs when a steroid molecule binds to the:

1. transfer RNA

2. messenger RNA

3. DNA sequence

4. ribosome

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PYQ 2010
easy
botany ID: neet-201

Which one of the following is used as a vector for cloning genes into higher organisms?

1. Baculovirus

2. Salmonella typhimurium

3. Rhizopus nigricans

4. Retrovirus

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PYQ 2019
easy
botany ID: neet-201

Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) refers to:

1. Novel DNA sequence 2. Genes expressed as RNA
3. Polypeptide expression 4. DNA polymorphism
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04
PYQ 2022
easy
botany ID: neet-202

If a geneticist uses the blind approach for sequencing the whole genome of an organism, followed by assignment of function to different segments, the methodology adopted by him is called as:
1. Bioinformatics
2. Sequence annotation
3. Gene mapping
4. Expressed sequence tags

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PYQ 2023
easy
botany ID: neet-202
Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) refers to:
1. Certain important expressed genes.
2. All genes that are expressed as RNA.
3. All genes that are expressed as proteins.
4. All genes whether expressed or unexpressed
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06
PYQ 2023
easy
botany ID: neet-202
Which of the following is not a cloning vector?
1. Probe 2. BAC
3. YAC 4. PBR322
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07
PYQ 2025
easy
botany ID: neet-202
Which chromosome in the human genome has the highest number of genes?
1. Chromosome 1 2. Chromosome 10
3. Chromosome X 4. Chromosome Y
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