Molecular Biology and Genetics: Course Overview

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What is the course code for Molecular Biology and Genetics?

MT(CLS)-610

MT(CLS)-611

MT(CLS)-608

MT(CLS)-609 (correct)

How many credit hours are assigned to this course?

03

05

04 (correct)

06

What is the title of the book recommended by Lizabeth A.Allison?

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Fundamentals of Molecular Biology (correct)

Molecular Biology: Genes to proteins

Genetics and Your Health

What is the topic of the 7th item in the course outline?

Genetics and Your World (C) Signup and view all the answers

What is the license under which this work is licensed?

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialNoDerivatives 4.0 International (D) Signup and view all the answers

Who is the author of the book 'Molecular Biology: Genes to proteins'?

Burton E.Tropp (D) Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary focus of molecular biology?

The study of gene structure and function at the molecular level (C) Signup and view all the answers

What is the main objective of molecular biology?

To understand the interactions between DNA, RNA, and protein biosynthesis (D) Signup and view all the answers

What is the relationship between molecular biology and other fields of biology and chemistry?

Molecular biology overlaps with other areas, particularly genetics and biochemistry (C) Signup and view all the answers

What is the significance of molecular biology in a laboratory setting?

It allows the laboratory to be predictive in nature (B) Signup and view all the answers

What is the focus of molecular biology in terms of gene structure and function?

The study of gene structure and function at the molecular level (D) Signup and view all the answers

What is the ultimate goal of molecular biology?

To understand biological phenomena in molecular terms (A) Signup and view all the answers

Who is credited with proposing the germ plasm theory in 1893?

August Weismann (D) Signup and view all the answers

What is the term coined by William Bateson in 1906?

Genetics (B) Signup and view all the answers

Who is credited with describing the behavior of chromosomes during mitosis in 1882?

Walter Flemming (A) Signup and view all the answers

Who formulated the one gene-one enzyme hypothesis in 1941?

George W. Beadle and Edward L. Tatum (B) Signup and view all the answers

Who developed the Punnett square in 1905?

Reginald C. Punnett (D) Signup and view all the answers

Who coined the term 'genes' in 1902?

Walter S. Sutton (B) Signup and view all the answers

Who observed that chromosomes in cells behave in ways parallel to Mendel's characters during meiosis?

Walter S.Sutton and Theodore Boveri (C) Signup and view all the answers

What is the name of the substance isolated by Friedrich Miescher in 1869?

Nuclein (A) Signup and view all the answers

Who demonstrated the 'transforming principle' in bacteria?

Frederick Griffith (A) Signup and view all the answers

What is the name of the structure proposed by Phoebus Aaron Levene for DNA?

Tetranucleotide (A) Signup and view all the answers

Who developed the idea of sex determination by chromosomes?

Nettie M.Stevens and Edmund B.Wilson (B) Signup and view all the answers

What is the range of molecular weights found for DNA by Rudolf Signer, Torbjorn Caspersson and Einer Hammarstein?

500,000 to 1,000,000 daltons (A) Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary technique used by scientists to study proteins and DNA?

X-ray crystallography (D) Signup and view all the answers

Who coined the term 'molecular biology'?

Warren Weaver (B) Signup and view all the answers

What did Owald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty demonstrate in 1944?

Griffith's bacterial transforming principle is not protein but DNA (C) Signup and view all the answers

What did Erwin Chargaff discover about the bases of DNA?

The amounts of A and T, and G and C are equal (C) Signup and view all the answers

Who used bacteriophage to confirm that DNA is the hereditary material?

Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase (A) Signup and view all the answers

What is the structure of B-form DNA, as revealed by X-ray crystallography?

A repeating structure (D) Signup and view all the answers