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Bioinformatics databases offer health professionals information about:
environmental factors that may cause diseases
proteins that may cause genetic disorders
mutations that may cause genetic disorders
RNA sequences that may cause genetic disorders
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Which of the following is NOT an advantage of DNA barcoding?
estimating evolutionary divergence times
the classification of new species
updating of classifications
allowing species to be genetically modified
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DNA barcoding involves comparing the DNA sequence of an unidentified organism to:
a database of known single nucleotide polymorphisms
a database of standard DNA sequences for known species
a database of known protein sequences
a database of known RNA sequences
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Most diseases result from the interaction between:
just the environment
genes and the environment
genes and mutations
just genes
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Which of the following applies DNA sequencing and computational biology to study the genomes of organisms?
bioinformatics
computational biology
proteomics
genomics
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Proteomics examines the:
entire RNA sequence
complete set of metabolites
complete set of proteins produced by the genome
entire DNA sequence
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The complexity of the genotype-phenotype relationship is underscored by:
the number of unique proteins being equal to the number of genes
the number of unique proteins greatly exceeding the number of genes
the number of genes greatly exceeding the number of unique proteins
the number of unique genes being equal to the number of proteins
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Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are:
variations in the number of chromosomes
large-scale structural variations in the genome
single-base variations in the genome
variations in the number of copies of a gene
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Which process involves cutting DNA into fragments, sequencing the fragments, and aligning them to determine the whole DNA sequence?
polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
DNA replication
classification
whole-genome shotgun (WGS) sequencing
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