Evolutionary Genetics of Animal mcqs January 8, 2026April 9, 2024 by u930973931_answers 80 min Score: 0 Attempted: 0/80 Subscribe 1. What is bioinformatics? (A) The study of animals in their natural habitats (B) The study of animal behavior (C) The study of biological information using computational tools (D) The study of animal genetics 2. Which of the following is NOT a primary application of bioinformatics in zoology? (A) Animal behavior analysis (B) Protein structure prediction (C) Genomic sequencing (D) Phylogenetic analysis 3. Which bioinformatics tool is commonly used for DNA sequence alignment? (A) BLAST (B) ClustalW (C) PHYLIP (D) FASTA 4. What is the purpose of homology modeling in bioinformatics? (A) To predict the function of proteins (B) To predict the structure of proteins based on known structures (C) To analyze gene expression patterns (D) To study animal populations 5. Which of the following is a database commonly used in bioinformatics for storing genetic information? (A) PubMed (B) Web of Science (C) Google Scholar (D) GenBank 6. What is the main goal of comparative genomics? (A) To compare the genomes of different species to understand their similarities and differences (B) To study the genetics of a single species (C) To analyze gene expression patterns (D) To study animal behavior 7. Which bioinformatics tool is used to predict the secondary structure of RNA molecules? (A) BLAST (B) ClustalW (C) PHYLIP (D) Mfold 8. Which of the following is NOT a common bioinformatics approach used in phylogenetic analysis? (A) Maximum likelihood (B) Neighbor-joining (C) Bayesian inference (D) Protein folding 9. What is the purpose of metagenomics in bioinformatics? (A) To study the genomes of individual organisms (B) To predict protein structures (C) To study animal behavior (D) To analyze the genetic material recovered directly from environmental samples 10. Which bioinformatics tool is commonly used for protein sequence alignment? (A) BLAST (B) ClustalW (C) PHYLIP (D) FASTA 11. What is the primary function of the NCBI database? (A) To provide funding for bioinformatics research (B) To publish scientific articles (C) To conduct experiments (D) To collect, organize, and make available biomedical information 12. What is the main objective of population genomics? (A) To analyze genetic variation within and between populations (B) To study the genomes of individual organisms (C) To predict protein structures (D) To study animal behavior 13. Which bioinformatics tool is used to analyze gene expression data? (A) Microarray analysis software (B) ClustalW (C) BLAST (D) Mfold 14. What is the purpose of molecular docking in bioinformatics? (A) To predict secondary structure of proteins (B) To study interactions between proteins and other molecules (C) To analyze gene expression (D) To predict protein-protein interactions 15. Which bioinformatics approach is used to identify potential drug targets? (A) Population genomics (B) Molecular docking (C) Metagenomics (D) Comparative genomics 16. Which of the following databases is commonly used for protein structure prediction? (A) GenBank (B) PubMed (C) PDB (D) NCBI 17. What is the main purpose of transcriptomics in bioinformatics? (A) To analyze gene expression patterns (B) To study genomes (C) To predict protein structures (D) To study animal behavior 18. Which tool is used to predict protein-protein interactions? (A) BLAST (B) STRING (C) ClustalW (D) Mfold 19. What is the primary function of the Ensembl database? (A) Information about genetic diseases (B) Protein structure prediction (C) Genome annotation and comparative genomics (D) Gene expression analysis 20. Which bioinformatics approach is used to study evolutionary relationships between species? (A) Structural bioinformatics (B) Molecular phylogenetics (C) Cheminformatics (D) Systems biology 21. What is the primary function of BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool)? (A) To predict protein structures (B) To analyze gene expression patterns (C) To study animal behavior (D) To search for sequence similarities in nucleotide or protein databases 22. Which bioinformatics tool is used to predict the three-dimensional structure of proteins? (A) BLAST (B) ClustalW (C) Mfold (D) SWISS-MODEL 23. What is the primary function of the UCSC Genome Browser? (A) To provide information about genetic diseases (B) To analyze gene expression patterns (C) To predict protein structures (D) To visualize and analyze genomic data 24. Which bioinformatics approach is used to study the genetic variation within a population? (A) Population genomics (B) Comparative genomics (C) Molecular phylogenetics (D) Transcriptomics 25. What is the main goal of structural bioinformatics? (A) To predict the three-dimensional structure of proteins (B) To study the interactions between proteins and other molecules (C) To analyze gene expression patterns (D) To predict protein-protein interactions 26. Which bioinformatics tool is used to analyze next-generation sequencing data? (A) BLAST (B) ClustalW (C) Mfold (D) SAMtools 27. What is the primary function of the UniProt database? (A) To provide comprehensive information about protein sequences and functions (B) To provide information about genetic diseases (C) To analyze gene expression patterns (D) To predict protein structures 28. Which bioinformatics approach is used to study the structure and function of proteins? (A) Structural bioinformatics (B) Molecular phylogenetics (C) Cheminformatics (D) Systems biology 29. What is the purpose of genome annotation in bioinformatics? (A) To study animal behavior (B) To predict protein structures (C) To identify genes and their functions in a genome (D) To analyze gene expression patterns 30. Which bioinformatics tool is used to analyze protein-protein interaction networks? (A) BLAST (B) Cytoscape (C) ClustalW (D) Mfold 31. What is the primary function of the Gene Ontology (GO) database? (A) To predict protein structures (B) To analyze gene expression patterns (C) To study animal behavior (D) To provide comprehensive information about gene functions 32. Which bioinformatics approach is used to study the interactions between genes and gene products? (A) Systems biology (B) Cheminformatics (C) Population genomics (D) Structural bioinformatics 33. What is the main objective of pathway analysis in bioinformatics? (A) To predict protein structures (B) To analyze gene expression patterns (C) To study the interactions between genes and gene products (D) To identify biological pathways and their components 34. Which bioinformatics tool is commonly used for multiple sequence alignment? (A) ClustalW (B) BLAST (C) Mfold (D) PHYLIP 35. What is the primary function of the KEGG database? (A) To provide information about biological pathways and networks (B) To analyze gene expression patterns (C) To predict protein structures (D) To study animal behavior 36. Which bioinformatics tool is used to analyze the structure of nucleic acids? (A) BLAST (B) ClustalW (C) Mfold (D) STRING 37. What is the main goal of integrative bioinformatics? (A) To study interactions between genes and their products (B) To integrate data from different sources for better biological understanding (C) To predict protein structures (D) To analyze gene expression patterns 38. Which bioinformatics tool is used to study the molecular evolution of genes? (A) BLAST (B) PHYLIP (C) ClustalW (D) Cytoscape 39. What is the primary function of the STRING database? (A) To provide information about protein structures (B) To predict protein-protein interactions (C) To analyze gene expression patterns (D) To study animal behavior 40. Which bioinformatics tool is used to analyze high-throughput sequencing data? (A) BLAST (B) Galaxy (C) ClustalW (D) Mfold 41. What is the primary purpose of transcriptomics? (A) To study protein structures (B) To analyze metabolic pathways (C) To study evolutionary relationships (D) To analyze the complete set of RNA transcripts in a cell 42. Which database is widely used for storing and retrieving nucleotide sequences? (A) PDB (B) UniProt (C) GenBank (D) KEGG 43. What is the full form of FASTA? (A) Fast A Tool for Sequence Alignment (B) Fast Alignment Search Tool Application (C) Fast Allignment System for Transcript Analysis (D) Fast Algorithm for Sequence Tagging and Alignment 44. Which tool is used for phylogenetic tree construction? (A) Cytoscape (B) SAMtools (C) PHYLIP (D) BLAT 45. In bioinformatics, what does “motif” refer to? (A) 3D protein structure (B) Protein-protein interaction (C) RNA secondary structure (D) Short conserved sequence pattern 46. Which file format is commonly used for storing multiple sequence alignments? (A) CLUSTAL format (B) FASTQ (C) PDB (D) VCF 47. What is the main purpose of molecular docking? (A) To align nucleotide sequences (B) To identify evolutionary relationships (C) To study gene expression (D) To predict interaction between a protein and a ligand 48. What type of data does the PDB database contain? (A) RNA sequences (B) Protein 3D structures (C) Metabolic pathways (D) Gene expression data 49. Which software is used for visualization of protein structures? (A) BLAST (B) ClustalW (C) PyMOL (D) MEGA 50. What is the main function of a heatmap in bioinformatics? (A) To visualize sequence alignment (B) To display variations in gene expression levels (C) To predict protein structure (D) To construct phylogenetic trees 51. What is the purpose of the FASTQ format? (A) To store protein structures (B) To store metabolic pathways (C) To store nucleotide sequences with quality scores (D) To store gene ontology terms 52. Which tool is widely used for genome assembly? (A) PyMOL (B) BLAST (C) SPAdes (D) STRING 53. What is the main function of a VCF file? (A) To predict protein structures (B) To store gene expression data (C) To store genomic variant information (D) To store metabolic pathways 54. Which term refers to the study of the complete set of proteins expressed by an organism? (A) Genomics (B) Proteomics (C) Transcriptomics (D) Metabolomics 55. What does the term “annotation” mean in genome studies? (A) Predicting 3D protein structure (B) Mapping protein interactions (C) Measuring gene expression (D) Identifying and labeling genes and functional elements 56. Which bioinformatics tool is used to trim low-quality bases from sequencing data? (A) BLAT (B) PyMOL (C) MEGA (D) Trimmomatic 57. Which database is used specifically for protein families and domains? (A) PDB (B) KEGG (C) Pfam (D) GenBank 58. What does MEGA software mainly help in? (A) Protein visualization (B) Phylogenetic analysis (C) Genome assembly (D) Molecular docking 59. What is the purpose of RNA-Seq? (A) To study DNA mutations (B) To visualize chromosomes (C) To determine protein folding (D) To measure gene expression levels using sequencing 60. Which method is used to predict RNA secondary structure? (A) PyMOL (B) Mfold (C) BLAST (D) Cytoscape 61. Which algorithm is widely used for multiple sequence alignment? (A) ClustalW (B) Needleman-Wunsch (C) Smith-Waterman (D) BLAT 62. What is the purpose of KEGG database? (A) To store protein 3D structures (B) To analyze gene and metabolic pathways (C) To store RNA sequences (D) To create phylogenetic trees 63. What does SNP stand for? (A) Single Nucleotide Polypeptide (B) Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (C) Sequence Number Position (D) Structural Nucleotide Pattern 64. Which tool is commonly used for protein–protein interaction analysis? (A) Mfold (B) SPAdes (C) STRING (D) GENSCAN 65. What does metabolomics study? (A) DNA mutations (B) Small molecules and metabolites (C) Protein structures (D) RNA transcript levels 66. Which sequencing technology is known for long reads? (A) Illumina (B) Microarray (C) Sanger (D) PacBio 67. What is the primary purpose of gene ontology (GO)? (A) To visualize protein structures (B) To classify genes based on their functions (C) To identify RNA motifs (D) To generate phylogenetic trees 68. Which tool is used for primer designing? (A) ClustalW (B) PyMOL (C) Primer3 (D) MEGA 69. What is the function of GROMACS? (A) Multiple sequence alignment (B) Protein structure visualization (C) Molecular dynamics simulation (D) RNA secondary structure prediction 70. Which term refers to the entire set of metabolites present in an organism? (A) Genome (B) Proteome (C) Metabolome (D) Transcriptome 71. Which file format is commonly used for protein structure visualization? (A) PDB (B) FASTQ (C) VCF (D) SAM 72. What is the main purpose of BLAT? (A) Rapid sequence alignment for highly similar sequences (B) Molecular docking (C) Phylogenetic tree building (D) RNA-Seq expression analysis 73. Which technique is used to detect gene expression using hybridization? (A) RNA-Seq (B) PCR (C) Microarray (D) X-ray crystallography 74. What is the purpose of SAMtools? (A) RNA structure prediction (B) Protein–protein interaction mapping (C) 3D structure visualization (D) Manipulation of sequence alignment files 75. Which database provides comprehensive information on protein sequences and functions? (A) KEGG (B) UniProt (C) Pfam (D) PDB 76. Which software is used to identify open reading frames (ORFs)? (A) ORF Finder (B) PyMOL (C) MEGA (D) BLAT 77. What does QC stand for in sequencing analysis? (A) Quality Control (B) Query Comparison (C) Quantitative Classification (D) Quick Calculation 78. Which method is used to infer evolutionary relationships? (A) Docking (B) Phylogenetic analysis (C) Molecular dynamics (D) Gene annotation 79. Which database is widely used for metabolic pathway visualization? (A) Pfam (B) GenBank (C) PDB (D) KEGG 80. What is the purpose of the RCSB PDB website? (A) To store gene sequences (B) To provide access to protein 3D structures (C) To build phylogenetic trees (D) To analyze gene expression