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Name of the Organisation : Department of Biotechnology
Subject : Biotechnology Eligibility Test Question Paper
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DBT Biotechnology Eligibility Test Question Paper

SECTION – A :
Q1
Mr. X, Mr. Y and Mr. Z went to a fruit shop to purchase apples and oranges at a fixed price for each orange and apple. The transaction amount for each purchase was noted. (I) Mr. X purchased 8 oranges and 4 apples (II) Mr. Y purchased 16 oranges and 8 apples (III) Mr. Z purchased 6 oranges and 5 apples. The individual prices of oranges and apples can be obtained by which one of the following?
Option 1 (I) and (II)
Option 2 (I) and (III) or (II) and (III)
Option 3 (I), (II) and(III)
Option 4 Insufficient data.

Q2
A watch repair man noticed that the clock under repair showed 12 minutes slow at 10:00 PM. He made an adjustment and went home. Next day at 10:00 AM, the clock showed 10:12 AM. At what time the clock would have shown the correct time?
Option 1 3:48 AM
Option 2 4:00 AM
Option 3 4:12 AM
Option 4 5.00 AM

Q3
In a class of 15, the mean marks for a unit examination was 25 with a standard deviation 0. The correct interpretation is:
Option 1 Half the class had scores less than 25
Option 2 There was a high correlation between ability and grade
Option 3 Everyone had a score of exactly 25.
Option 4 Half the class had 0’s and half had 25s

Q4 Question/Options
A person travelled 3 km towards west and continued walking 4 km towards north. The shortest distance from the point of starting to current position is
Option 1 7 km
Option 2 5 km
Option 3 1 km
Option 4 2 km

Q5
Mohan is 18th from either end of a row of boys? How many boys are there in that row ?
Option 1 26
Option 2 32
Option 3 37
Option 4 35

Q6
‘Soldier’ is related to ‘Army’ in the same way as ‘Pupil’ is related to ______
Option 1 Education
Option 2 Teacher
Option 3 Student
Option 4 Class

Q7
What should come in the place of ‘X’ in the following series: 3, 8, 6, 14, X, 20 ?
Option 1 11
Option 2 10
Option 3 8
Option 4 9

Q9 Based on the following assumptions
I. Conveyance allowance will not help in bringing punctuality.
II. Discipline and reward should always go hand in hand.
The CEO of a company issues the following statement: “In order to bring punctuality in our office, we must provide conveyance allowance to our employees.” Which of the above assumptions is implied?
Option 1 Only I
Option 2 Only II
Option 3 Either I or II
Option 4 Neither I nor II

Q10
A man has some buffaloes and ducks. If the number of heads is 70 and the number of legs is 200, then the number of buffaloes is
Option 1 30
Option 2 40
Option 3 20
Option 4 70

Q11
Identify the pair that best expresses the relationship similar to that expressed in Day : Week.
Option 1 Foot : Inch
Option 2 Second : Time
Option 3 Time : Duration
Option 4 Acre : Hectare

2009 :
Section A :
1. Which of the following does not apply to triplex DNA?
(A) It is triple stranded in nature
(B) It requires only Hoogstein hydrogen bonding
(C) It requires Watson-Crick hydrogen bonding
(D) It forms at neutral or acidic pH

2. A C-terminal KDEL motif will most often ensure
(A) the protein to be folded by hsc70
(B) the protein to be degraded by the ubiquitinproteasome pathway
(C) secretion of the protein
(D) ER-retention of the protein

3. 5-Methylcytosines are common sites for mutations because they
(A) are not recognized by the proofreading activity of DNA polymerase
(B) can mispair with adenine
(C) can deaminate to thymidine
(D) prevent discrimination between the daughter and parental strand

4. Nickel Nitriloacetic acid columns are used in ___________ chromatography
(A) Ion exchange
(B) Affinity
(C) Size exclusion
(D) Reverse phase

5. The antibiotic that resembles the 3′ end of the charged tRNA molecule is
(A) Tetracycline
(B) Puromycin
(C) Kanamycin
(D) Steptomycin.