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?

<p>Genetics and Your World (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the license under which this work is licensed?

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

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

<p>Burton E.Tropp (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary focus of molecular biology?

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

What is the main objective of molecular biology?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is the ultimate goal of molecular biology?

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

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

<p>August Weismann (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term coined by William Bateson in 1906?

<p>Genetics (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Walter Flemming (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

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

Who developed the Punnett square in 1905?

<p>Reginald C. Punnett (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who coined the term 'genes' in 1902?

<p>Walter S. Sutton (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Walter S.Sutton and Theodore Boveri (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Nuclein (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who demonstrated the 'transforming principle' in bacteria?

<p>Frederick Griffith (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Tetranucleotide (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who developed the idea of sex determination by chromosomes?

<p>Nettie M.Stevens and Edmund B.Wilson (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>500,000 to 1,000,000 daltons (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>X-ray crystallography (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who coined the term 'molecular biology'?

<p>Warren Weaver (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

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

What did Erwin Chargaff discover about the bases of DNA?

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

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

<p>Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>A repeating structure (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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