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#Question id: 12249

In Batesian mimicry, a harmless species mimics a harmful or toxic model species. Increasing the relative abundance of the mimic will:

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles
  1. Negatively affect both model and mimic populations
  2. Negatively affect the model but not the mimic population
  3. Positively affect both model and mimic populations
  4. Positively affect the mimic but not the model population
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#Question id: 22753

#Unit 11. Bioinformatics

In a pairwise alignment, an optimal alignment is the one that
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#Question id: 21536

#Unit 11. Bioinformatics

Which one of the following expressions is likely to retrieve more matches in a database search?
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#Question id: 21537

#Unit 11. Bioinformatics

Which substitution matrices should you prefer to find distantly related orthologs through BLAST search?
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#Question id: 21538

#Unit 11. Bioinformatics

Match the items in Group 1 with an appropriate description in Group 2

 Group I Group 2
 P. UPGMA 1. Protein sequence database
 Q. CLUSTALW 2. Phylogenetic Analysis
 R. SWISS-PROT 3. 3-D structure visualization
 S. RasMol 4. Multiple sequence alignment 
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#Question id: 21541

#Unit 11. Bioinformatics

Two species are found to share a cluster of 8 genes, but the genes are in different orders in the two species. The orders are represented by signed permutations as given below:
Species X 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
Species Y 1, 2,-5,-4,-3,8,6,7
The transformation between the two gene orders
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#Question id: 21542

#Unit 11. Bioinformatics

As the E value of a BLAST search becomes smaller