CET Karnataka Medical CET - Karnataka Medical Solved Paper-2006

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    Bioinfonnatics is an interdisciplinary branch which is concerned with the application of:

    A)  engineering techniques in biological studies

    B)  chemistry in understanding the biological phenomenon

    C)  physics in understanding various life processes

    D)  information science in analysing the biological data

    Correct Answer: D

    Solution :

    The term bioinformation is a combination of biology and informatics. Bioinformatics developed in the wake of generation of amino acid sequences of proteins and nucleotide sequences of DNA. Bioinformatics is the science concerned with the development and application of computer hardware and software to the equisition, storage, analysis and visualization of biological information. It has the following three chief components. 1. The development of new algorithms and statistics for assessing the relationships among large sets of biological data, e.g., DNA sequence data. 2. Application of these tools for the analysis and interpretation of the various biological data including nucleotide sequences, amino acids sequences, etc. 3. The development of database for an efficient storage, access and management of the large body of various biological in formations.


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