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#Question id: 14139

Which of the following statement is incorrect about sequence similarity and sequence identity?

#Section 7: Recombinant DNA technology and Other Tools in Biotechnology

Sequence similarity and sequence identity are synonymous for nucleotide sequences
Sequence similarity involves the use of the overall sequence lengths of both sequences while sequence identity normalizes by the size of the shorter sequence.
Both A and B
None of the above

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#Question id: 14154

#Section 7: Recombinant DNA technology and Other Tools in Biotechnology

BLAST and FASTA are the examples of

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#Question id: 14155

#Section 7: Recombinant DNA technology and Other Tools in Biotechnology

Which of the following statement is correct for BLAST?

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#Question id: 14156

#Section 7: Recombinant DNA technology and Other Tools in Biotechnology

A short stretch of identical residues in FASTA is called

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#Question id: 14157

#Section 7: Recombinant DNA technology and Other Tools in Biotechnology

A ktup is composed of ___residues for protein sequences and _____ residues for DNA sequences.

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#Question id: 14158

#Section 7: Recombinant DNA technology and Other Tools in Biotechnology

BLAST uses a _______ to find matching words, whereas FASTA identifies identical matching words using the _____

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#Question id: 14159

#Section 7: Recombinant DNA technology and Other Tools in Biotechnology

Which of the following statement is not a benefit of FASTA over BLAST?