BO1221 General Informatics and Bioinformatics B.Sc Model Question Paper : keralauniversity.ac.in

Name of the University : University of Kerala
Degree : B.Sc
Department : Botany
Semester : II
Name of the Subject : BO1221 General Informatics and Bioinformatics
Website : keralauniversity.ac.in

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Kerala University General Informatics Question Paper

(Model question paper)
Course code : BO1221 Time: 3 hrs Weightage : 30
SECTION – A
Answer the following

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(A bunch of four questions carries 1 weightage)
I. Choose the correct answer
1. The first researcher to sequence a genome in 1977,was
a. Todd Golubb. Frederick Sangerc. Craig Venterd. Stephen Fodor
2. Microarray gene chips will eventually be used to
a. Screen for mutations leading to cancerb. Identify carriers of genetic diseases
c. Identify probable behavioral traitsd. Both a & b are correct
3. The new area of science that seeks to catalog and analyze every protein in the human
a. Bioinformaticsb. Proteomicsc. Molecular geneticsd. Genomics
4. A fast growing new field of Science that seeks to predict the structure of a protein
a. Genomicsb. Proteomicsc. Bioinformaticsd. Both a and c

II. State True or False
5. Linux is an operating software
6. WAN is a part of internet
7. Packages are used to write computer programmes
8. SWISS PROT is a protein sequence database.

III. Fill in the blanks with suitable words
9. ______________ is software used to plot phylogenetic trees
10. MS WORD is word processor; MS EXCEL is a graphical software and
_______________ is a presentation software.
11. Gen Bank is a __________________ database.
12. Clustal X is a __________________ alignment programme for Windows

IV. Select suitable items from A and B.
13. Protein sequences Pharmacoinformatics
14. Molecular docking NCBI
15. Pharmacogenomics Interaction of two molecules
16. Drug designing Genetic variations and responds to drugs

SECTION- B
Answer any Eight
(Short answer questions; each question carries a weightage of 1)
17. How do you differentiate Web browser from Search engine
18. Distinguish between Virus and Worms
19. Explain application software
20. Define free software.
21. What is LAN-
22. Expand SCOP
23. Explain Plagiarism.
24. What is cyber ethics-
25. What is www-
26. Explain any two windows commands.
27. What is a rooted and unrooted tree-
28. What is a search engine-

SECTION- C
Answer any Five
(Short essay- type questions; each question carries a weightage of 2)
29. Name two communication protocols.
30. .If you obtain a novel sequence, which database searches would you perform first and
31. What are web browsers-
32. Explain molecular modeling.
33. What is bioinformatics- Why is it a multidisciplinary field-
34. What are primary and secondary databases- Explain in detail.

35. What is PDB? Why is it used as a structural database?
36. How can you proceed to find Taxonomic position of the organism through DNA Data Bank of Japan?

Section – D :
Answer any two questions (Each carries a weightage of 4)
37. What are the basic assumptions made in molecular phylogeny? Why is molecular phylogeny preferred to all the other phylogeny methods?
38. What is Information technology? Describe the applications of information technology in various fields. How is it related to the society?
39. Define genomics. Describe about different classes of genomics. What are the applications of genomic analysis and studies?

Methodology & Perspectives of Sciences

(Model question paper) :
Course Code : BO 1141
Section- A :
Answer All (A bunch of four questions carries 1 weightage)
I. Choose the correct answer :
1. When several unbiased samples are drawn from the same population, the sampling technique is ——————
a. Random sampling
b. Non random sampling
c. Non probability sampling
d. Purposive sampling

2. Frequency of a discrete variable can be represented by
a. Line diagram
b. Bar diagram
c. None of them
d. Both of them

3. Sample size depends upon
a. type of problem investigated
b. Resources available
c. Required precision
d. All of them

4. Controlled, repeatable or vigorously verified observation is called
a. Scientific statement
b. Scientific fact
c. Scientific knowledge
d. Practical knowledge

II. State true or false :
5. Explicit knowledge is highly personal and hard to formalize.
6. Characteristics of persons or things which can assume different values are called variables.
7. Characteristics such as sex, colour etc are examples of quantitative observations.
8. The biggest difference between a theory and a law is that a theory is much more complex and dynamic.

III. Fill in the blanks :
9. Phenomena improperly explained as scientific is —————-
10. ———- may come from careful and logical analysis of problem.
11. ——— is regarded as the father of Biostatics.
12. In ————– random sampling, population is divided with the number of sections called strata

IV. Answer in one word or in one sentence :
13. Empiricism
14. Pseudoscience
15. Continuous variables
16. Scientific statement