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#Question id: 27220


Which of the following statement is incorrect regarding advantage of multiple sequence alignment?

#Section 7: Recombinant DNA technology and Other Tools in Biotechnology
  1. It reveals more biological information than many pairwise alignments.
  2. It allows the identification of conserved sequence patterns and motifs in the whole sequence family
  3. Multiple sequence alignment is an essential prerequisite to carrying out phylogenetic analysis of sequence families and prediction of protein secondary and tertiary structures.
  4. None of the above.
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#Question id: 1129

#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology

Which of the following plays a role in the relaxation of smooth muscle cells by nitric oxide?

a. cGMP          b. protein kinase A      c. protein kinase G      d. guanylyl cyclise

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#Question id: 1130

#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology

In muscle cells, glycogen phosphorylase kinase is activated by

a. Ca2+.           b. diacylglycerol.   c. nitric oxide.       d. protein kinase A.    

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#Question id: 1133

#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology

What tertiary structure characterizes all cytokines?

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#Question id: 1134

#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology

Arrange the following proteins in the proper order in which they become activated in the MAPK signaling pathway:

a. MAP kinase                         b. MEK           c. Ras              d. Raf              e. RTK            

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#Question id: 1136

#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology

Which of the following signaling pathways can be activated by activation of receptor tyrosine kinases?

a. phospholipase Cγ                b. PI-3 kinase

c. MAP kinase                         d. none of the above

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#Question id: 1137

#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology

A loss-of-function mutation in PTEN phosphatase results in

a. increased cell proliferation.            

b. decreased cell proliferation.

c. increased apoptosis.                                   

d. decreased apoptosis.