‘Competence’ can be induced in a bacterium by treating them with:
1. Polyethylene glycol
2. A specific divalent cation
3. Colchicine
4. Alkaline phosphatase

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Bacteria can protect themselves from getting infected by bacteriophages as they synthesize:
1. Methylase
2. Ligases
3. Plasmids
4. Endonucleases

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Match the following enzymes with their functions:
 

Column-I

Column-II

(a)

Restriction

endonuclease

(i)

joins the DNA fragments

(b)

Exonuclease

(ii)

extends primers on genomic DNA template

(c)

DNA ligase

(iii)

cuts DNA at a specific position

(d)

Tag polymerase

(iv)

removes nucleotides from the ends of DNA


Select the correct option from the following:

Options: (a) (b) (c) (d)
1. (iii) (i) (iv) (ii)
2. (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
3. (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
4. (ii) (iv) (i) (iii)

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DNA fragments are 
1. Negatively charged
2. Neutral
3. Either positively or negatively charged depending on their size.
4. Positively charged. 

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Which of the following is not a feature of the plasmids? 
1. Independent replication
2. Circular structure
3. Transferable
4. Single-stranded 

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The cutting of DNA at specific locations became possible with the discovery of 
1. Ligases
2. Restriction enzymes
3. Probes
4. Selectable markers 

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Which vector can clone only a small fragment of DNA? 
1. Bacterial artificial chromosomes
2. Yeast artificial chromosomes
3. Plasmid
4. Cosmid

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Which of the following are used in gene cloning?
1. Lomasomes
2. Mesosomes
3. Plasmids
4. Nucleotides 

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Which one of the following palindromic base sequences in DNA can be easily cut at about the middle by some particular restriction enzyme?
1. 5’______CACGTA_______3’
3’______CTVAGT_______5’
2. 5’______CGTTCG_______3’
3’______ATGGTA_______5’
3. 5’______GATATG_______3’
3’______CTACTA_______5’
4. 5’______GAATTC_______3’
3’______CTTAAG_______5’

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Restriction endonucleases are enzymes which 
1. Remove nucleotides from the ends of the DNA molecule.
2. Make cuts at specific positions within the DNA molecule.
3. Recognize a specific nucleotide sequence for binding of DNA ligase.
4. Restrict the action of the enzyme DNA polymerase. 

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