Biotechnology
GATE BT year:2023 PYQs
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Questions 51–60 of 65. Imported answers require independent review unless marked reviewed.
Question 51
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If there are three unrooted trees for four protein sequences, the number of rooted trees for the same number of sequences is __________.
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The number of different possible ways of forming five intramolecular disulfide bonds with ten cysteine residues of a protein is __________.
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The following schematic diagram shows a chemostat with cell recycle

where F₀ and Fᵣ are the volumetric flow rates (in L.h
) of feed and recycle streams, respectively. X₁, X₀ and X are the cell concentrations (in g.L
) in the reactor, recycle-stream and product-stream, respectively. If
,
and X₁ is 7.3 g.L
, the value of X (in g.L
, rounded off to one decimal place) is __________.Log in to check the answer
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An enzyme (E) catalyzes the biochemical reaction A → B with k₍cat₎ equal to 500 s
. If the initial reaction velocity (V₀) is 10 μM.s
at the total enzyme concentration [Eₜ] of 30 nM and substrate concentration [A] of 40 μM, the value of Kₘ (in μM) is __________.Log in to check the answer
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DNA sample collected from an unidentified bacterial species (Y) contains 13% of adenine. The G+C content (in percentage) of Y is __________.
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If 100 bp of a double-helical DNA weighs 1×10
gm and distance between two bp is 0.34 nm, the total amount of DNA (in mg, rounded off to one decimal place) required to stretch from Earth to Moon (assuming the distance between Earth and Moon to be 3,74,000 km) is __________.Log in to check the answer
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A protein has three identical sites arranged at the vertices of an equilateral triangle. If one site is filled with a dye (donor), the measured quantum yield (
) is 0.5. Filling one site with a donor dye and a second site with an acceptor dye results in
of 0.25. The measured
of one site filled with donor and the other two sites filled with acceptor dye (rounded off to three decimal places) is __________.Log in to check the answer
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If
, the value of
is __________.Log in to check the answer
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If
, the value of
at
is __________.Log in to check the answer
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If f(2) = 5 and (f(x))(f(x+1)) = 3 for all real values of x, the value of f(10) is __________.
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