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#Question id: 2014


Some pathogens can undergo rapid changes resulting in antigenic variation. Which of the following is such a pathogen?

#Section 2: General Biology
  1. the influenza virus, which expresses alternative envelope proteins

  2. the strep bacteria, which can be communicated from patient to patient with high efficiency

  3. human papilloma virus, that can remain latent for several years

  4. the causative agent of an autoimmune disease such as rheumatoid arthritis

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#Question id: 15140

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

Two types of pair-wise sequence alignment of the same hypothetical protein sequence fragments are illustrated in the figure below. Vertical bars between the sequences indicate the presence of identical amino acids. * symbols in Figure Y indicate residues not included in the alignment.





Which one of the following is correct?

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#Question id: 15141

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

An alignment of two protein sequences is given below:

Sequence A         A G A A C D E V I G
Sequence B         A G E Y C D A V I G
The similarity score (%) for the above alignment will be:

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#Question id: 15142

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

Dot matrix analysis of the amino acid sequences of lambda phage cI (horizontal sequence) and phage P22 c2 (vertical sequence) repressors is shown below. Which one of the following is correct?

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#Question id: 15143

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

Which one of the following is a depiction of the GenBank sequence entry format?

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#Question id: 15167

#Section 6: Plant, Animal and Microbial Biotechnology

Bacteria on fish caught in the Arctic Ocean would

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#Question id: 15168

#Section 6: Plant, Animal and Microbial Biotechnology

Cyanobacteria comprises a large and morphologically heterogenous group of