Fundamentals of Bioinformatics – Easy Quiz
Test your basic knowledge of computational biology with nine multiple‑choice questions covering DNA, proteins, and common tools.
Quiz Questions
Answer all questions below and test your knowledge.
- 1
Which file format is commonly used to store raw reads from a high‑throughput sequencer?
- 2
What does the acronym BLAST stand for in the context of searching biological databases?
- 3
In a multiple sequence alignment, which symbol typically indicates a fully conserved residue across all sequences?
- 4
Which algorithm is designed to find the optimal global alignment between two sequences?
- 5
What type of data does a phylogenetic tree most directly represent?
- 6
Which of the following is a public repository for protein structures?
- 7
When converting a protein sequence to its corresponding DNA coding strand, which codon would encode the amino acid lysine?
- 8
Which software tool is frequently used for aligning short reads to a reference genome?
- 9
In the context of RNA‑seq data, what does TPM stand for?
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