30 Questions
What is the course code for Molecular Biology and Genetics?
MT(CLS)-609
How many credit hours are assigned to this course?
04
What is the title of the book recommended by Lizabeth A.Allison?
Fundamentals of Molecular Biology
What is the topic of the 7th item in the course outline?
Genetics and Your World
What is the license under which this work is licensed?
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialNoDerivatives 4.0 International
Who is the author of the book 'Molecular Biology: Genes to proteins'?
Burton E.Tropp
What is the primary focus of molecular biology?
The study of gene structure and function at the molecular level
What is the main objective of molecular biology?
To understand the interactions between DNA, RNA, and protein biosynthesis
What is the relationship between molecular biology and other fields of biology and chemistry?
Molecular biology overlaps with other areas, particularly genetics and biochemistry
What is the significance of molecular biology in a laboratory setting?
It allows the laboratory to be predictive in nature
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
What is the ultimate goal of molecular biology?
To understand biological phenomena in molecular terms
Who is credited with proposing the germ plasm theory in 1893?
August Weismann
What is the term coined by William Bateson in 1906?
Genetics
Who is credited with describing the behavior of chromosomes during mitosis in 1882?
Walter Flemming
Who formulated the one gene-one enzyme hypothesis in 1941?
George W. Beadle and Edward L. Tatum
Who developed the Punnett square in 1905?
Reginald C. Punnett
Who coined the term 'genes' in 1902?
Walter S. Sutton
Who observed that chromosomes in cells behave in ways parallel to Mendel's characters during meiosis?
Walter S.Sutton and Theodore Boveri
What is the name of the substance isolated by Friedrich Miescher in 1869?
Nuclein
Who demonstrated the 'transforming principle' in bacteria?
Frederick Griffith
What is the name of the structure proposed by Phoebus Aaron Levene for DNA?
Tetranucleotide
Who developed the idea of sex determination by chromosomes?
Nettie M.Stevens and Edmund B.Wilson
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
What is the primary technique used by scientists to study proteins and DNA?
X-ray crystallography
Who coined the term 'molecular biology'?
Warren Weaver
What did Owald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty demonstrate in 1944?
Griffith's bacterial transforming principle is not protein but DNA
What did Erwin Chargaff discover about the bases of DNA?
The amounts of A and T, and G and C are equal
Who used bacteriophage to confirm that DNA is the hereditary material?
Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase
What is the structure of B-form DNA, as revealed by X-ray crystallography?
A repeating structure
This quiz covers the fundamental concepts of molecular biology and genetics, including the structure of DNA, genome organization, RNA versatility, DNA replication, and repair mechanisms. It provides an overview of the course, covering topics from the beginning of molecular biology to eukaryotic and prokaryotic transcription.
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