Which of the following statements about the DNA in one of your brain cells is true?

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#Part-A Aptitude & General Biotechnology

Consider the following alignment of two DNA sequences:

                            AGTAAC

                            AA_ _AC

Assuming an affine gap scoring scheme of an identity matrix for substitution, a gap initiation penalty of 1 and a gap extension penalty of 0.1, the score of the alignment is _________

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BLAST uses heuristics to align a query sequence with all sequences in a database. 

Reason(R): BLASTX uses protein sequences as queries to search against a protein sequence database.

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BLAST uses heuristics to align a query sequence with all sequences in a database. 

Reason(R): BLASTX uses protein sequences as queries to search against a protein sequence database.

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

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

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In sequence alignment by BLAST, each word from query sequence is typically _______ residues for protein sequences and _______ residues for DNA sequences.