LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

B.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ZOOLOGY

FIFTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2006

                                                            ZO 5502 – BIOTECHNOLOGY

(Also equivalent to ZOO 514)

 

 

Date & Time : 25-04-2006/1.00-4.00 P.M.   Dept. No.                                                       Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

Part A                                     (Answer All)                          10 X 2 = 20

1. What are plasmids?
2. Comment on restriction enzymes.
3. Write a note on “Bacteriophages”
4. What do you mean by biodegradation?
5. What is an explant?
6. What is shot gun cloning?
7. Comment on gene amplification.
8. What are primary metabolites?
9. Comment on “Transgenic animals”
10. Write a note on bacterial vaccines.

 

Part B                                     (Answer any four)                 4 X 10 = 40

11. Bring out the physical and restriction map of PBR 322.
12. Explain the characteristics of primary and established cell lines.
13. Describe the role of biotechnology in agriculture.
14. Describe what are secondary metabolites.
15. What are monoclonal antibodies? Bring out its uses.
16. What is gene therapy? Write its uses.

 

Part C                                     (Answer any two)                              2 X 20 = 40

17. Write an essay on technological uses of animal tissue culture.
18. Discuss what are bioreactors.
19. Discuss how microbes are useful in pollution abatement.
20. Write an essay on indirect cloning strategies.

 

 

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             LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

B.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – PHYSICS & PLANT BIOLOGY

TS 7

FOURTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2006

                                                            ZO 4202 – BIOINFORMATICS

 

 

Date & Time : 22-04-2006/9.00-12.00         Dept. No.                                                       Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

Part A                                     (Answer All)                          10 X 2 = 20

1. Mention any two-sequence database.
2. Define BLAST.
3. Comment on Protein data bank.
4. What are Open reading frames?
5. Mention the importance of Molecular visualization tools.
6. What is data mining?
7. Mention any two Sequence Analysis tools.
8. Comment on FASTA.
9. What are Accession number and PDBID?
10. Mention the significance of Phylip.

Part B                               (Answer any four)                 4 X 10 = 40

1. Explain the importance of Data mining analysis in biological research.
2. Highlight on Sequence retrieval and analysis.
3. Outline the different types of Biological databases.
4. Write notes on few Protein structure Prediction methods.
5.  Describe the implications of IT in Biological sciences.
6. What are the applications of Bioinformatics?

 

Part C                               (Answer any two)                              2 X 20 = 40

1. Discuss on database and similarity search processes.
2. How do you retrieve Protein Structure from Protein databank and add its visualization using Rasmol.

19. Give an account on Sequence and structural Analysis tools with Protocols.

1. How do you proceed with multiple sequence alignment? Explain the methods and Utilities.

 

 

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